Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.

In August 1909 Reims hosted the first international aviation meet, the Grande Semaine d ' Aviation de la Champagne.

His first marriage was to Isabelle of Valois, who brought him the title of comte de Vertus in Champagne, rendered in Italian as Conte di Virtù, the title by which he was known in his early career.

Champagne first gained world renown because of its association with the anointment of French kings.

Jean François de Troy's 1735 painting Le Déjeuner d ' Huîtres ( The Oyster Luncheon ) is the first known depiction of Champagne in painting

In France, the first sparkling Champagne was created accidentally ; its pressure led it to be called " the devil's wine " ( le vin du diable ), as bottles exploded or corks jolted away.

Then came Taittinger's Comtes de Champagne ( first vintage 1952 ), and Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siècle ' La Cuvée ' in 1960, a blend of three vintages ( 1952, 1953, and 1955 ) and Perrier Jouet's ' La Belle Epoque '.

A batch of wine from Aÿ received in 1518 by Henry VIII's chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, is the first recorded export of wine from the Champagne region to England.

She immediately called for a march northeast into Champagne, towards Rheims, but the French commanders knew they had to first clear the English out of their dangerous positions on the Loire.

1976-on convertibles received no significant engineering changes, only a few cosmetic touches and new paint options, including the " Champagne Edition " models ( white on white was one example ) to the final 1979 " Epilogue Edition " black on black, in salute to the first Beetles produced in the 1930s.

His mother's children by her first marriage to Louis VII of France were Marie of France, Countess of Champagne and Alix of France, Countess Blois.

The British were the first to see the tendency of wines from Champagne to sparkle as a desirable trait and tried to understand why it produced bubbles.

This is one of the first known accounts of understanding the process of sparkling wine and even suggests that British merchants were producing " sparkling Champagne " before the French Champenois were deliberately making it.

According to etymological sources, the term " spumante " was not used in a wine context until 1908, more than 40 years following the first Italian sparkling wine using the méthode champenoise produced by Carlo Gancia which was then sold as " Moscato Champagne ".

His first act was the swear to uphold the Fueros of Navarre and then go to perform homage to Philip III of France for Champagne.

Following King Henry's death in 1135 the succession was disputed between the king's nephews — Stephen and his elder brother, Theobald II, Count of Champagne — and Henry's surviving legitimate child Matilda, usually known as the Empress Matilda because of her first marriage to the German Emperor, Henry V. King Henry's only legitimate son, William, had died in 1120.

Marie of France, Countess of Champagne ( 1145 – March 11, 1198 ) was the elder daughter of Louis VII of France and his first wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Theater critic and historian Burns Mantle cited a letter he received from Woolf saying “ Mamzelle Champagne was my Columbia Varsity Show, and was transported by a manager, Henry Pincus, to the open Madison Square Roof with a professional cast .” However, The Varsity Show ’ s own website disputes this “ legend ”, saying Mam ’ zelle was Woolf ’ s first professional show and not the one he had written as a student in the class of 1901.

While the Dom did work tirelessly and successfully to improve the quality and renown of the still wines of Champagne, he did not invent sparkling wine, nor was he the first to make champagne.

Songs like Glorious Beer, and the first major music hall success, Champagne Charlie ( 1867 ) had a major influence in establishing the new art form.

The first published recipe — gin-based — seems to have appeared in The Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, but 20 years later David Embury wrote, in The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, “ Gin is sometimes used in place of cognac in this drink, but then, of course, it no longer should be called French .” Embury ignores Champagne ’ s French origins, not to mention the 75-millimeter cannon for which the drink was named.

Champagne evolved from the county of Troyes in the late eleventh century and Hugh I was the first to officially use the title " Count of Champagne ".

In the late seventh and early eighth centuries, Champagne was controlled by the Pippinids ; first by Drogo, son of Pippin of Herstal, and then by Drogo's son Arnulf.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

That moment, halfway through the first act, belongs to Ms. Lansbury, who has hitherto been perfectly entertaining, playing Madame Armfeldt with the overripe aristocratic condescension of a Lady Bracknell.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

Nevertheless, his journalistic skills are useful as he pursues stories on the crime boss known as the Spider Lady, and the criminal scientist Luthor ( who had yet to receive his first name, Lex ).

* 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ( she had been elected to that position on November 28 ).

Elizabeth's first Lady Mistress, Margaret, Lady Bryant, wrote that she was " as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life ".

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

Next, inside this first flashback, the Lady of the title narrates another story, presented in flashback form, but with cutaways inside it back to events occurring in the time frame in which she is doing her narrating.

Dolley Madison was the first President's wife to be referred to as " First Lady " at her funeral in 1849.

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

The title first gained nationwide recognition in 1877, when newspaper journalist Mary C. Ames referred to Lucy Webb Hayes as " the First Lady of the Land " while reporting on the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes.

Her first success was in Ireland as Lady Townley ( in The Provok'd Husband by Vanbrugh and Cibber ), and it was only after five years, on the pressing invitation of David Garrick, that she returned to Drury Lane.

There she remained for eighteen years, being the first to play more than thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle ( 1777 ).

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.