This is the fascinating story of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin who, after her husband’s death, defied convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company though turbulent financial and political periods, including the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, droughts and depressions, she became one of the world’s first great businesswomen and one of the richest of her time.
It’s also a look inside the social conventions and the role expected of women of that time. It also covers the transformation from cottage industry to industrialisation that was happening in Europe over that period using the champagne industry as an exmple
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