As director of Ruinart, one of the leading champagne houses in Reims, France, he was experienced with the méthode champenoise when he on a 1841 boat trip met his future wife Sophie Kirchner from Vienna, the daughter of a wealthy factory owner.

Opperman joined a training camp run by Paul Ruinart, trainer of the Vélo Club Levallois, on the outskirts of Paris.

* Thierry Ruinart ( 1657 – 1709 ), French Benedictine monk and scholar

That same year, the company acquired full rights to France's oldest wine maison and main competitor of Moët et Chandon, Ruinart Père et Fils.

Moët Hennessy held Moët & Chandon Champagne, Ruinart Champagne, Champagne Mercier, Canard-Duchêne and Hennessy cognac.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

He was worshipped as Acraephius ( ; Ἀκραιφιος, Akraiphios, literally " Acraephian ") or Acraephiaeus ( ; Ἀκραιφιαίος, Akraiphiaios, literally " Acraephian ") in the Boeotian town of Acraephia ( Ἀκραιφία ), reputedly founded by his son Acraepheus ; and as Smintheus ( ; Σμινθεύς, Smintheus, " Sminthian "— that is, " of the town of Sminthos or Sminthe ") near the Troad town of Hamaxitus.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

He was a cultivated patron of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first printing press authorized to use the Arabic or Turkish languages was set up in Constantinople, operated by Ibrahim Muteferrika ( while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all works published before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew ).

* Italian Lazzaro Spallanzani ( 1729 – 99 ) was among early physicians to disregard Galen's theories, and in 1780 he gave experimental proof on the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.

In 1729 a seminary was opened by Antoine Court and Benjamin Duplan.

The name " methodist " was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.

Opium prohibition in China began in 1729 yet was followed by nearly two centuries of increasing opium use.

In Canada, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was founded in 1729, making it the first police force in present day Canada.

First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1659 – 1729 ), a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722.

This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

This visit was followed by the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ( 1729 – 1811 ), the man who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.

The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729.

The word " Biafra " appeared for the first time in the ancient map of Africa drawn by the Portuguese from 1492 to 1729 when it was spelt as Biafara, Biafar, and Biafares.

In 1672, Otto von Guericke ( 1602 – 1686 ), was the first human on record to knowingly generate electricity using a machine, and in 1729, Stephen Gray ( 1666 – 1736 ) demonstrated that electricity could be " transmitted " through metal filaments.

The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna ( 1698 – 1765 ) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.

Year 1729 ( MDCCXXIX ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

* August 1 – The Comet of 1729, possibly the largest comet on record, was discovered by Nicolas Sarabat.

Ganassa had performed in Paris in 1571 and 1572, and further transformations of the character occurred in France, where Arlecchino was performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Tristano Martinelli, Giovan Battista Andreini, and Angelo Costantini ( c. 1654 – 1729 ).

Shaftesbury's denial of the innate depravity of man was taken up by contemporaries such as the popular Irish essayist Richard Steele ( 1672 – 1729 ), who attributed the corruption of contemporary manners to false education.