Count Alexandre de Lur Saluces, born 20 May 1934 in
Vendenesse-lès-Charolles
Vendenesse-lès-Charolles (, literally ''Vendenesse near Charolles'') is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
The follow ...
, is a
French viticulturist
Viticulture (from the Latin word for ''vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ran ...
who for 36 years acted as manager of
Château d’Yquem, and still acts in this capacity for
Château de Fargues
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Nowaday ...
, both
Sauternais châteaux held by the Lur Saluces family for generations.
Biography
Early life
A member of the Lur Saluces, a noble family originally from
Aquitaine
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. Born the eighth of nine siblings, he is the son of Amédée de Lur Saluces, and of Eléonore de Chabannes la Palice, niece of Bertrand de Lur Saluces and the daughter of
Eugène de Lur-Saluces.
He attended the Saint-Martin de France college in
Pontoise
Pontoise () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the " new town" of Cergy-Pontoise.
Administration
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. Then, he studied at the
EDHEC Business School
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faculty of Law.
After his military service from 1959 to 1962, and experience working at a variety of companies, his uncle Bertrand marquis de Lur Saluces, taught him the family business of winemaking. Upon Bertrand's death on 19 December 1968, Alexandre took over management of d'Yquem
until its takeover by
LVMH
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in 1999.
Titles and distinctions
* Knight of the
National Order of Agricultural Merit
* Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic
Bibliography
*
Léo Drouyn
Léo is a proper noun in French, meaning lion". Its etymological root lies in the Latin word Leo.
Léo is used as a diminutive or variant of the names Léon, Léonard, Léonardon, Leonardo, Léonid, ''Léonor'', '' Léonore'', ''Eléonore'', L ...
, ''La Guyenne militaire'', 2 vol, Bordeaux, 1865, Laffitte reprints, Marseille, 1977, .
* Marguerite Figeac-Monthus, ''Uza, les Lur Saluces et la mise en valeur des Landes aux et siècles'', dans ''Château et innovation'', Actes des Rencontres d’archéologie et d’histoire en Périgord, septembre 1999, textes réunis par Anne-Marie Cocula et Anne-Marie Dom, Ausonius-CAHMC, Bordeaux, 2000, .
* Idem, ''Les Lur Saluces d'Yquem, de la fin du XVIII
e siècle au milieu du XIX
e siècle'', Mollat, Fédération Historique du Sud-Ouest, 2000.
* Mathilde Hulot, ''Alexandre de Lur Saluces. Le comte en sa demeure'', in "Visages de vignerons", Figures du vin, Paris, Fleurus, 2005, .
*
Périco Légasse, ''Alexandre de Lur Saluces, Le Prince de Fargues'', in ''
Marianne
Marianne () has been the national personification of the French Republic since the French Revolution, as a personification of liberty, equality, fraternity and reason, as well as a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.
Marianne is displayed i ...
'', octobre 2015.
* Alexandre de Lur Saluces, ''La morale d'Yquem'', Entretiens avec
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Jean-Paul Kauffmann (8 August 1944, Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Mayenne) is a French journalist and writer, a former student of the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille (40th class).
Biography
His great-grandfather Michel Kauffmann left Alsac ...
, Bordeaux, Mollat, 1999.
* Alexandre de Lur Saluces, Marguerite Figeac-Monthus, ''De l'Italie vers la France, de la province vers Paris, de la Guyenne vers le Cantal : Faire revivre les Lur Saluces d'Yquem aux et siècles'', in "Archives familiales et noblesse provinciale, La pierre et l'écrit", Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2006, .
*
Richard Olney
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He served as United States Attorney General in the cabinet of Grover Cleveland and Secretary of State under Cleveland.
As attorney general, Olney used injunct ...
, ''Yquem'', Paris, Flammarion, 1985.
* Nicolas de Rabaudy, ''Le comte de Lur Saluces s’insurge'', in "
Paris Match
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History and profile
A sports news magazine, ''Match l'intran'' (a play on ''L'Intransigeant' ...
", , 7 September 2007.
References
External links
Official site of Château de Fargues* http://www.lous-seurrots.com/
* http://www.domaines-uza.fr/
* http://www.europe1.fr/emissions/au-coeur-de-l-histoire/acdh-lintegrale-14112016-le-chateau-dyquem-2900117
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1934 births
French viticulturists
Living people
People from Saône-et-Loire
Knights of the Order of Agricultural Merit