# Veuve Clicquot: The Champagne Queen — WHE Article Discussion

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**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 9:00am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/veuve-clicquot-the-champagne-queen-whe-article-discussion/7332 "2025-09-12T09:00:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![markzcartwright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/markzcartwright/32/35_2.png) [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)\
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Innovative, a risk-taker, and utterly relentless in her will to overcome all obstacles, one woman not only matched but beat her competitors in the male-dominated champagne industry to establish the brand with the inimitable mango-orange label. Madame Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (1777-1866), better known to the world by the name of her champagne, Veuve Clicquot ('Widow Clicquot'), was one of the greatest entrepreneurs not just of her own but of any age.

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_This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2800/veuve-clicquot/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2800/veuve-clicquot/)._

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**Author:** ![markzcartwright](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/markzcartwright/32/35_2.png) [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2026, 4:27am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/veuve-clicquot-the-champagne-queen-whe-article-discussion/7332/2 "2026-07-29T04:27:33Z")

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