Fabienne Moreau - A champagne nagyasszonya

The sharp minded Barbe Nicole Ponsardin marries into a wealthy Reims family, the Clicquot family, which experiments with champagne production. Her happy, albeit somewhat boring life is changed forever by an unexpected tragedy, the death of her young husband. Widowed at the age of 27, Madame Clicquot has to decide: sell her husband's company and live on in the prosperity provided by the money received, or risk everything and, defying the expectations of the early 19th century, stand at the head of the business herself.
The woman who made a bold decision must survive in the seething Europe of the Napoleonic wars and make the Clicquot champagne house flourish. Thanks to his tireless spirit of innovation and his willpower to overcome all obstacles, Veuve Clicquot's sparkling wines, made with a new process, will soon be on the table of any European royal family, and champagne drinking will become an indispensable measure of nobility and sophistication.
Fabienne Moreau's carefully researched novel tells the story of an exceptional woman who, despite all prejudices, obstacles and tragedies, changed the whole world.