Champagne. Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, the most Lorraine of the Champagne people
Invited to Metz by the Press Club as part of the tenth anniversary of the UNESCO classification of the Champagne hillsides, the highly charismatic Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, 72, honorary president of the famous eponymous house, recounted everything that unites him with Lorraine. With his characteristic humor.
From the outset, he sets his sights on the Cross of Lorraine, which he always wears, from under his shirt. A Gaullist display. But not only that: "My family was from Lorraine and was among the 150,000 Mosellans who left this territory in 1872 to retain French nationality. We were farmers who settled in Silly-sur-Nied 230 years ago. Many Taittingers are buried in this...
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