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Jacquesson 7
Sources for the preceeding material
Baptism Register: St Georges Church, Hanover Square, London
Henry Vitetelly, A History of Champagne with notes on the other sparkling wines of France illustrated with 350 engravings, Vizetelly & Co., London 1882, pp 132-3:
M. Schlumberger. Souvenirs sur la famille Jacquesson, Paris 1933. St Martin in the Fields: Vol 58 p73 No 29. Marriage register
John Arlott, Krug. House of Champagne. London 1976
Other notes from the text
Lithography is the process of engraving on stone to produce an impression that can be duplicated in a printing press. The skill taken on by Emma at Adolphe's behest was related to this venture.
Lemercier , Rose Joseph [1802-1887] Pioneer of the lithographic process and pupil of the Austrian inventor of the process, Senefelder. Mainly noted for his contribution to 19th Century Romanticism through his works. Made a considerable fortune from the relatively new process. He came from a poor Paris family of ten children whose income relied on the father's weaving and selling of baskets on the street corners. The son received a sou each week for his efforts in selling the baskets and he used the money to buy drawings which he could copy. Came to prominence when the king, Louis Philippe, commissioned the construction of fountains for la Place de la Concorde and the sculptor used young Lemercier as a model for Triton.
Le cloître St Etienne - the Cloister of St Stephen was attached to the cathedral consecrated in the twelfth century by Pope Eugène III. The property was purchased from the State by Claude Jacquesson after the Revolution. Ironically it was to pass back to the Church in 1864.
The gold medal awarded by Napoleon still adorns the labels of Jacquesson champagne!
Guyot, Jules. doctor of medicine and well known writer on viticulture who had lost heavily on an enterprise to commercially manufacture liquid hydrogen.
Avenue de l'Empéreur is now the avenue de Président Wilson.
Manutention Militaire = Military administration. Now the site of the Eiffel Tower.
The great cellars at Mont St Michel were dug in 1804.
4 thermidore VIII translates into 22 July 1800.
Adapted and updated from:
Graham Jaunay, Première Qualité. The story of the Jaunay family in the 19th Century, Adelaide proformat, Adelaide 1994
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