If your knowledge of Champagne history only extends as far back as your
last cocktail party, we can commiserate. Before getting our hands on
Colby College assistant professor Tilar J. Mazzeo’s latest book, The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it
(HarperCollins Publishers, 2008; $25.95), all we really knew about
famed Champagne house Veuve Clicquot was that we loved the pricy bubbly
it produced. Mazzeo takes an in-depth look at the veuve (French for
widow) behind the label — Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin — and tells
the story of how Champagne became synonymous with style. Some of it
(like the pages about Clicquot Ponsardin’s obstacles during the
Napoleonic Wars) reads a bit like a history textbook, but the
inspirational rags-to-one-of-the-r
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