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Philippe Clicquot was a textile merchant, a banker, and an owner of vineyards in the Champagne country. [14][15] In 1772, he established a wine business. [16][17][15] He quickly decided to bring his champagne wines to foreign palates [16] and soon expanded his clientele. [16] His annual shipments varied between 4,000 bottles a year to 6-7,000 ...
François Clicquot (married 1798) Madame Clicquot (French: [madam kliko]), née Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (French: [baʁb nikɔl pɔ̃saʁdɛ̃]), Widow Clicquot or Veuve Clicquot (16 December 1777 – 29 July 1866), known as the " Grande Dame of Champagne ", [1] was a French Champagne producer. She took on her husband's wine business when widowed ...
François-Henri (also Henry) Clicquot (1732 – 24 May 1790) was a French organ builder and was the grandson of Robert Clicquot and son of Louis-Alexandre Cliquot, who were also noted organ builders. [1] Clicquot was born in Paris, where he later died. The Clicquot firm installed the first noteworthy organ in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Nevertheless "Widow Clicquot" is a worthy, if abbreviated, toast to the woman behind one of the most iconic Champagnes in the world. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.
François-Henri Clicquot, at that time the leading organ-builder in France, was appointed to undertake the work but died on Pentecost 1790 before completing the work. His son, Claude-François Clicquot, finished the job, handing it over for presentation in March 1791. The instrument is a beautiful example of eighteenth-century organ design, and ...
Post-mortem photography is the practice of photographing the recently deceased. Various cultures use and have used this practice, though the best-studied area of post-mortem photography is that of Europe and America. [1] There can be considerable dispute as to whether individual early photographs actually show a dead person or not, often ...
Valley of the Shadow of Death: 23 April 1855 Roger Fenton: Sevastopol, Crimea Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [25] [26] [27]
The photographer, shooting from the hip, aimed the camera too high. The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas ...