Tag: France

Art and Champagne with Madame Vranken

Quality pushed to the extreme is Pommery Champagne’s constant demand when it comes to producing their unique, high-quality champagnes. Pommery Champagne is a delicacy, a style made of finesse, liveliness, and heart and soul, which plays a major force on the elegance crafted into every bottle of Pommery. Located in Champagne, France, Pommery’s grounds are unique in that they not…

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The Homeland of Her Youth

Valerie Collymore finds artistic inspiration from her unique childhood in France By Jack Hamann At the age of 9, Valerie Harmon was the only African-American—and, in fact, the only American—at her first day of school at Lycée de Jeunes Filles in Nice, France. She didn’t know a soul, and she didn’t speak French. Her teacher, Mme. Hémard, began the semester’s first…

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