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Madame Clicquot Ponsardin

1777 - 1866

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Madame Clicquot (French: [madam kliko]; née Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin [baʁb nikɔl pɔ̃saʁdɛ̃]; 16 December 1777 – 29 July 1866), also known as Barbe Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, Widow Clicquot, Veuve Clicquot, and the Grande Dame of Champagne, was a French Champagne producer. She took on her husband's wine business when widowed at 27. Under her ownership, and her skill with wine, the company developed early Champagne using a novel technique. The brand and company of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin still bears her name. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Madame Clicquot Ponsardin is the 191st most popular businessperson (up from 275th in 2019), the 1,761st most popular biography from France (up from 2,683rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin ranks 191 out of 847. Before her are Sung Jae-gi, Lady Bird Johnson, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Henry Ford II, Torakusu Yamaha, and François-Henri Pinault. After her are Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Hetty Green, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Ben Bradlee, and Salomon Mayer von Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin ranks 20. Before her are Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Bernard Courtois, Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Louis Poinsot. After her are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Guillaume Dupuytren, Filippo Taglioni, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Lorenzo Bartolini, and Aleksander Orłowski. Among people deceased in 1866, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin ranks 9. Before her are George Everest, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Hermann Goldschmidt, Tokugawa Iemochi, and Philipp Franz von Siebold. After her are William Whewell, Chief Seattle, Friedrich Rückert, Rikard Nordraak, Thomas Hodgkin, and Adolph Diesterweg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin ranks 1,761 out of 6,770. Before her are Jacques Dutronc (1943), Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830), Alphonse Allais (1854), Albert Calmette (1863), and Maurice Sarrail (1856). After her are Louis-François de Boufflers (1644), Maurice Trintignant (1917), Maurice Duruflé (1902), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Balthasar Gérard (1557), and William Farel (1489).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In France

Among businesspeople born in France, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin ranks 11. Before her are Louis Vuitton (1821), Christophe Plantin (1520), Pierre Bergé (1930), François Pinault (1936), Armand Peugeot (1849), and François-Henri Pinault (1962). After her are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771), Yves Rocher (1930), Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), Eugène Schueller (1881), Serge Dassault (1925), and Ghislaine Maxwell (1961).

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