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2.  From Russia With Love
1963
3.  Goldfinger 1964
4.  Thunderball 1965
5.  You Only Live Twice
1967
1967
6.  On Her Majesty`s Secret Service
7.  Diamonds Are Forever1971
8.  Live And Let Die1973
9. 
The Man With The Golden Gun
10.The Spy Who Loved Me
11.Moonraker 1979
12.For Your Eyes Only 1981
13.Octopussy 1983  
14.A View To A Kill 1985  

15.The Living Daylights 1987
16.Licence To Kill 1989
17.Goldeneye1995
18.Tomorrow Never Dies1997
19.The World Is Not Enough
20.Die Another Day2002
21.Casino Royale 2006
22.Quantum Of Solace 2008
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Casino Royale 1954
Casino Royale 1967
Never Say Never Again
1983

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Madame Lilly Bollinger History - Champagne Bollinger Lady. (1899-1977)
Lilly Bollinger until 1971,
Madame Lilly Bollinger med hennes käraste ägodel
cykeln var hennes transportsätt mellan vingårdarna
i Champagnedalen Aÿ.

1941                                       

When Jacques Bollinger dies during the Nazi occupation of Champagne, Elizabeth ‘Lily’ Law de Lauriston Boubers (1899-1977), married to Jacques in November 1923), takes over.  As they have no children, she is already deeply immersed in the business and so is able to run it, even during the difficult World War II years.  During her 30 years as head of Bollinger, she acquires additional vineyards in Ay, Mutigny, Grauves (1955 and 1968) and Bisseuil (1961). 

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(1899-1977)

“I drink my Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. 
When I have company I consider it obligatory. 
I  trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. 
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty”. 

"I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty."

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Champagnedrottningen Madame Lilly  Bollinger lär ha sagt följande:

"Jag dricker champagne när jag är lycklig, och när jag är ledsen. Ibland dricker jag när jag är ensam. Har jag sällskap anser jag att champagne är självklart. Jag smuttar gärna på ett glas när jag inte är särskilt hungrig, och jag dricker alltid champagne när jag vill ha något att äta. Annars dricker jag aldrig champagne - utom när jag är törstig..."

Bollinger är ett legendariskt och traditionsrikt familjeföretag som grundades år 1829 och ett av de få privatägda champagnehusen som finns kvar. Firman ligger i byn Aÿ, mitt i de bästa lägena för druvan Pinot Noir. Bollinger är (tillsammans med Krug) den kraftigaste och fylligaste champagnen, lagrad längre än de flesta andra och med en tillsats av "Vin de Réserve" för att ge mer komplexitet.

Eng:
The History of Bollinger, Founded in 1829 in the village of AY in Champagne, is the history of a family who have dedicated their lives to their passion and ...

Bollinger is a Champagne house, a producer of sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France. They produce several labels of Champagne under the Bollinger name, including the vintage Vieille Vignes Françaises, Grand Année and R.D. as well as the non-v.
Special Cuvée. Founded in 1829 in Aÿ by Hennequin de Villermont, Paul Renaudin and Jacques Bollinger the house continues to be run by members of the Bollinger family. In Britain Bollinger Champagnes are affectionately known as "Bolly".

In 1918 Jacques Bollinger, the son of Georges, took over the company. Jacques married Emily Law de Lauriston Bourbers, known as "Lilly". Jacques further expanded the facilities by building new cellars, purchasing the Tauxieres vineyards, and acquiring the assets of another Champagne house on Boulevard du Marechal de Lattire de Tassigny—where Bollinger's officers are presently located.

When Jacques Bollinger died in 1941, Lilly Bollinger took over. Lilly expanded production through the purchase of more vineyards, but is better known for traveling the world to promote the brand. Lilly was well-publicized in the Champagne region, leaving several noteworthy quotes.

Lilly managed Bollinger until 1971, when her nephews Claude d'Hautefeuille and Christian Bizot succeeded her.

Cases per year
(12 × 750 mL)
100,000
Prestige Vieille Vignes Françaises and R.D.
Non vintage Special Cuvée

The House of Bollinger CHAMPAGNE BOLLINGER16 Rue Jules Lobet BP 4 51160 Ay - FRANKRIKE 
Tel: +33 3 26 53 33 66
- Fax: +33 3 26 54 85 59
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Madame Lilly Bollinger History - Champagne Bollinger Lady. (1899-1977)

 

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(1899-1977)

“I drink my Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. 
When I have company I consider it obligatory. 
I  trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. 
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty”. 

"I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty."

Madame Lilly Bollinger History - Champagne Bollinger Lady. (1899-1977)

 

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(1899-1977)

“I drink my Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. 
When I have company I consider it obligatory. 
I  trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. 
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty”. 

"I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it—unless I’m thirsty."

 

Champagne Wine Quotes
  • Champagne shows up in a plethora of books, movies, songs and quotations! 
    Champagne is often considered the ultimate drink of success and celebration. 
    Champagne is also a wonderful way to soothe yourself when you're feeling low! 
    Here are some great quotes, quotations and sayings involving the bubbly drink.

Lily Bollinger was asked "When do you drink champagne?", and replied:
I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.
When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Dorothy Parker

I am drinking the stars!
Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne

In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.
Napoleon

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis (from the movie Old Acquaintance)

Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it.
Madame De Pompadour

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.
Jimmy Stewart (from the movie The Philadelphia Story)

My only regret is that I did not drink more Champagne.
Lord Maynard Keynes, on his deathbed

I drink champagne when I win, to celebrate . . . and I drink champagne when I lose, to console myself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The feeling of friendship is like that of bein comfortably filled with roast beef; love is like being enlivened with Champagne.
Samuel Johnson

In success you deserve it, and in defeat you need it.
Winston Churchill

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don't like beer.
George Bernard Shaw

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• Dr. No (1962): Dom Pérignon 1955 och Smirnoff vodka.

• From Russia With Love (1963): Taittinger Blanc de Blancs.

• Goldfinger (1964): Dom Pérignon och mint julep.

• Thunderball (1965): Dom Pérignon 1955, vodka, Cinzano martini och Rum Collins.

• You Only Live Twice (1967): Vodka och Noilly Prat vermouth.

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969): Dom Pérignon 1957, Château Haut-Brion 1957, Hennessy Cognac och Campari.

• Diamonds Are Forever (1971): Mouton-Rothschild 1955.

• Live And Let Die (1973): Bollinger (för första gången).

• The Man With The Golden Gun (1974): Dom Pérignon 1964 samt vinet Phuyuck från Thailand.

• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977): Bacardi rom.

• Moonraker (1979): Bollinger R.D.

• For Your Eyes Only (1981): Dom Pérignon och ouzo.

• Octopussy (1983): Bollinger R.D.

• Never Say Never Again (1983): (Sean Connery's inofficiella nyinspelning av Thunderball). Absolut vodka.

• A View To A Kill (1985): Bollinger 1975, Château Lafite Rothschild 1959 och Stolichnaya vodka.

• The Living Daylights (1987): Bollinger R.D.

• License To Kill (1989): Bollinger R.D.

• GoldenEye (1995): Bollinger Grande Année och vodka.

• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Vodka.

• The World Is Not Enough (1999): Bollinger Grande Année.

• Die Another Day (2002): Bollinger Grande Année 1961 och 1995.

• Casino Royale (2006): Bollinger Grande Année 1990 och Château Angélus 1982.

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Champagne Bottle Sizes
The Champagne bottle design is born as much out of style as it is necessity. The thick glass with its gently sloping shoulders and a deep punt (the indentation on the underside) are necessary as the pressure inside the bottle is 80-90psi (3 x the pressure inside an average car tyre).

Quarter Bottle 0.2 litres
Half Bottle 0.375 litres
Bottle 0.75 litres
Magnum (2 bottles) 1.5 litres

Jereboam (4 bottles) 3 litres
Jeroboam (actually Jeroboam II), was the King of Israel during the year of Rome's founding (753 BC)

Rehoboam (6 bottles) 4.5 litres
A son of Solomon, Rehoboam (meaning "the clan is enlarged" according to Willard Espy) became king of Judah in 933 BC.

Methuselah (8 bottles) 6 litres
Methuselah was an antediluvian patriarch described in the Old Testament as having lived 969 years and whose name is synonymous with great age. He may well have evolved from a character of earlier Sumerian legend who lived for 65,000 years.

Salmanazar (12 bottles) 9 litres
Shalmaneser (alternatively spelled Salmanazar) was an Assyrian monarch who reigned around 1250 BC.

Balthazar(16 bottles) 12 litres
Balthazar ("King of Treasures") is the traditional name of one of the Three Wise Men, the other two being Melchior ("King of Light") and Gaspar ("The White One"). Many scholars nowadays tend to characterize the trio not as kings but rather as Zoroastrian priests, while others speculate that at least one of them was a king -- namely Azes II of Bactria who reigned from 35 BC to 10 AD. Whatever their occupations, legend and German tourist brochures have it that the Three Wise Men -- or at the very least their skulls -- lie buried in a golden shrine at Cologne Cathedral.

Nabuchadnezzar (20 bottles) 15 litres
Nebuchadnezzar, originally nabu-kudurri-usur meaning "Nabu protect the boundary," became King of the Chaldean Empire in 604 BC. He was actually the second Nebuchadnezzar; a less celebrated Nebuchadnezzar I preceded him by 500 years.

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MEURS UN AUTRE JOUR  JAMES BOND  DIE ANOTHER DAY BOLLINGER CHAMPAGNE POSTER
THE OFFICIAL CHAMPAGNE BOLLINGER POSTER OF JAMES BOND  CASINO ROYALE James Bond  THE OFFICIAL CHAMPAGNE BOLLINGER POSTER OF JAMES BONDS QUANTUM OF SOLACE.   LA GRANDE ANNEÈE 1999tim_bollinger


Ghislain de Montgolfier with James Bond Gunnar Schäfer

 President Gunnar Schäfer from James Bond 007 museum at the  Bollinger Champagne House 2008-09-08President Bollinger Ghislain de Montgolfier and President Gunnar Schäfer  James Bond 007 museum in Nybro 2008-09-08
President Gunnar James Bond Schäfer from James Bond 007 Museum at the Bollinger Champagne House. 
President Bollinger House Ghislain de Montgolfier and President Gunnar James Bond  Schäfer James Bond 007 museum  2008-09-08 in AY Frankrike

THE HISTORY OF A CHAMPAGNE FAMILY

 

Overview            

Seven members (in bold, below) from six generations of the Champagne Bollinger family have served as president of the firm since its founding in 1829.  Their goal has been to offer enthusiasts a unique wine whose style is intimately linked to the history of a family that has chosen to remain profoundly rooted in the singular interpretation of its vineyards and region.  In this era of conglomerization, Champagne Bollinger has been faithful to its traditions by remaining one of the last independent, family-owned and managed houses in Champagne.

Future                

"Bollinger today is quite simply a blend of the past and the future," Serena Sutcliffe states in the Cyril Ray book, Bollinger: Tradition of a Champagne Family (Heinemann, London, 1994).  "Where the past embodies traditions proved by generations to have been good, it remains as the backbone of the firm and the wine.  Where the future demands new exigencies in quality control and consistency, Bollinger rises to the challenge and arrives there before its competitors.  Today at Bollinger is constant awareness of fulfilling a historic role in Champagne married to forward-looking vision and energy."

1650                                       

The Hennequin de Villermont family settles in Champagne, at the Castle of Cuis, whose remnants are still visible.

1750                                                           

Pierre Gilles Nicholas Hennequin, Lord of Villermont, Cuis, Cramant, Chouilly, La Tour, Cuisle, St. Martin aux Champs, and Champoulain (17 ? –1795), moves to 16 Rue Jules Lobet in Ay, where Champagne Bollinger is located to this day.  There is no proof that he owned the villages listed in his title; indeed, he was not a man of wealth, though he did own vineyards in Ay, Cuis and Cramant.

1763                                       

Athanase Louis Emmanuel Hennequin, Lord of Villermont,  (1763-1840) is born to Gilles.    As a lad, he joins the French Navy as an ensign and fights with the Americans during their War of Independence, including in Chesapeake Bay on September 5, 1781.  By 1791, an officer, he is back in Europe and fights at the battle of Maestricht.  During the French Revolution, de Villermont exiles himself to Russia, from 1794 to 1798, where he is a commander in the Imperial Russian Navy.  With the subsequent brief restoration of the Bourbon family under Louis XVIII, de Villermont returns to France where he is eventually promoted to rear admiral and governor of the Royal Naval College of Angouleme.  Unfortunately, many of his lands are not restituted after the Revolution.

1815                   

When the Russians invade Champagne in July 1815, they spare the village of Ay because of de Villermont’s service in the Russian Navy.    His share of the family estate survives the Revolution but income is low so, existing Bollinger invoices show, he begins shipping small quantities of the 1812 vintage of his still and sparkling wines, primarily Cremant, to customers in France and the English Channel Islands, though not under his own name, as it was unseemly for aristocrats then to be in commerce. 

1829                                       

Jacques Joseph Placide Bollinger (1803-1888) was born to a noblewoman and legal officer in Ellwangen in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg.  In 1822, at 19, he joined Muller-Ruinart (no longer in existence) to sell their Champagne in the Kingdoms of Bavaria, Hanover, Wurtemberg and the Netherlands.  In 1829, with his Muller-Ruinart colleague Paul Renaudin and de Villermont, he forms the Renaudin Bollinger company on February 6.  Paul Renaudin dies without heirs, but tradition at Bollinger is so strong that his name remains on the label until 1960.        

1837                   

At 34, Jacques, who becomes a French citizen in 1846, marries de Villermont's twenty-year old daughter from his second marriage, Charlotte, and they have one daughter, Marie, who eventually marries Jules Moret de Rocheprise, and two sons, Joseph and Georges.

1870                   

Jacques exports his first shipment to the U.S.

1884                   

Georges is awarded the Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria and a year later from the Prince of Wales

1888             

Georges and Joseph Bollinger take over the business on Jacques death, and acquire vineyards in the villages of Louvois, Bouzy, and Verzenay as they expand exports.

1901                   

Georges is awarded the Royal Warrant from King Edward VII and, again, in 1910,  from King George V and Queen Mary.

1911                   

Because Bollinger had always used grapes grown exclusively in Champagne, the house is spared during the Ay Riots when many Champagne houses are put to the torch for importing grapes from outside the region.  Georges is elected to the Ay city council, where he continues to serve during the German invasion of 1914.

1918                                       

Georges dies and his son Jacques (1893-1941), at age 25, takes over, following a career as a glamorous and distinguished Farman pilot in the French Air Force during World War I, for which he receives the Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre by the age of 24.

1936                                       

Jacques replants the two-acre Cote aux Enfants vineyard in Ay and purchases vineyards in Tauxieres as well as the Duminy house and cellars on Boulevard Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny (which today are Bollinger’s offices) and connects them, via underground cellars, to his own cellars around the corner on Rue Jules Lobet.

1940                   

A month after the Germans requisition the Bollinger home and force the family out (during which time they take 178,000 bottles of Champagne), they demand that the Bollingers return to work.  To protect their vineyards, winery, and remaining inventory, the family returns to work in the vineyards and winery.  When told they are ‘goldbricking’, Jacques says they require help and thus is able to free many of the family’s workers from prison camp.

1941                                       

When Jacques Bollinger dies during the Nazi occupation of Champagne, Elizabeth ‘Lily’ Law de Lauriston Boubers (1899-1977, married to Jacques in November 1923), takes over.  As they have no children, she is already deeply immersed in the business and so is able to run it, even during the difficult World War II years.  During her 30 years as head of Bollinger, she acquires additional vineyards in Ay, Mutigny, Grauves (1955 and 1968) and Bisseuil (1961). 

1944                   

On August 10 Bollinger's properties are heavily damaged when a third of Ay is destroyed by Allied bombardments to destroy German munitions, but on August 22, General Patton's U.S. Third Army arrives just in time to stop the retreating German army from dynamiting Bollinger's cellars and Ay.

1950                                       

Lily is awarded the Royal Warrant from George VI and the Queen Mother.

1951                                       

Lily purchases from the Deuil family the one-and-a-half-hectare grand cru Cote aux Enfants plot between Rues de la Breche and Allard in the village of Ay, the vineyard from which Thomas Jefferson’s favorite wine of Champagne originated.

1955                                       

Lily is awarded the Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II.

1964                                       

Lily purchases Bollinger’s U.K. importer (since 1851), Mentzendorff, to assure the correct distribution of Bollinger’s Champagnes in its most important market.

1971                                       

Claude d’Hautefeuille (1913-2000), son-in-law of Lily’s sister Therese de Valbray, who joins Bollinger in 1950, becomes president, following 18 years in the French Foreign Legion.  A year later Lily retires, though she remains active until her death in 1977.  D'Hautefeuille, president of the Syndicat des Grandes Marques de Champagne from 1968 to 1974, purchases vineyards in Champvoisy and maintains Bollinger's policy of quality and independence while modernizing the company and increasing exports.  He retires from the presidency in 1978, becoming chairman emeritus of the board until 1998.   Heinemann publishes Bollinger: Tradition of a Champagne Family, written as tribute to the house by Cyril Ray.

1975                   

Bollinger introduces its unique pre-phylloxera ungrafted vineyard with the 1969 vintage, naming it Vieilles Vignes Françaises.

1978                   

Christian Bizot (1928-2002), son of Lily’s youngest sister, Guillemette, and Parisian banker Henry Bizot, who joins Bollinger in 1952, becomes president and increases exports to 83% of production while maintaining Bollinger's traditional values.  He purchases vineyards in Mutigny, and discontinues the house’s Extra Dry, saying its dosage masks the excellence of the wine. In 1989, for his commitment to quality, he is named one of only two Honorary Masters of Wine.  In March 1992, when criticism of Champagne for its declining quality has reached a roar in England and France, Bizot publishes a Charter of Ethics and Quality that makes public its guidelines for producing world-class Champagne; the family also begins listing basic information regarding cru quality, grapes and aging on each of its Champagnes’ back labels.

1981                   

For the first time, Bollinger bottles its Ay Cote aux Enfants vineyard pinot noir, with the 1979 vintage.

1987                   

To honor Lily on the 10th anniversary of her death, Bollinger establishes the Madame Bollinger Foundation to promote the highest ethical and quality standards in the wine industry.  With its first grant of 30,000 pounds to the Institute of Masters of Wine in 1988, the foundation extends the Masters of Wine exam to overseas candidates.  Additional grants are made in subsequent years, and the Foundation also awards a Madame Bollinger Medal of Excellence in Wine Tasting to the best taster in the Master of Wine Exam.

                          

Given the accelerating trend of conglomerization in Champagne, to protect itself from a hostile takeover, Bollinger restructures to a family-owed holding company, Jacques Bollinger Cie., with all shares entirely in family hands.

1993                   

Bollinger creates the R.D. Circle to ensure that enthusiasts and collectors receive their R.D. in perfect condition, fresh and directly from the winery rather than after months and even years of storage under uncertain conditions.

1993
                   

Ghislain de Montgolfier (1943-), great-grandson of founder Jacques Joseph Bollinger, and nephew of Jacques and Lily, becomes Bollinger’s seventh president in December after serving on the company’s board of directors from 1985, and joining Bollinger as director general in 1990 following a career in agricultural research in the public and private sectors.  He purchases vineyards in Louvois and Vertus.  In 1993, he becomes president of the Technical Commission of the CIVC (Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne). 

                          

Heinemann republishes Cyril Ray's Bollinger: Tradition of a Champagne Family, updated and with a new chapter by Serena Sutcliffe, U.K. M.W.
 

2000                   

Bollinger holds a meeting with the young generation (under 35) of Union of Growers, during which many say they have a vision of how they want their Champagnes to taste, but Bolly already produces such Champagnes.
 

2001                                       

Bollinger opens its first Bollinger Bar, in the Le Meridien in Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London in March.

Historien om Lilly Bollinger

Inom familjen blev hon känd som ”tant Lily, i byarna runt Aÿ som ”fru Jacques” och för världen en av Champagnes stora kvinnor.

Den 10 november 1923 gifte sig Jacques Bollinger, barnbarnet till Joseph Jacob – mer känd som Jaques Bollinger, delgrundare av champagnehuset ett sekel tidigare – med Elisabeth Law de Lauriston-Boubers. Redan vid giftermålet tog omfamnade hon både champagnen och vingården med vördnad och passion. Nästan tjugo år efter bröllopet går Jacques oväntat bort och utan arvinge tvekande hon inte när hon tog över vinhuset.

Under den tyska ockupationen av Champagne ledde Madame Bollinger tappert och med fast hand huset vidare genom kriget. När regionen efter kriget höll på att återhämta sig behövde det diskreta huset Bollinger återupplivas. Där och då bestämde hon sig för att erövra Amerika med sin karakteristiska stil och beslutsamhet. Resplanen blev en mycket utvalt rundtur i USA för att introducera amerikanerna för en champagne som sedan länge uppskattats på andra sidan kanalen, i England.

Den 25 oktober klev Madame Bollinger ombord på passagerarfartyget Liberté med destination New York. Under två månader reste hon på längden och tvären till USAs mest kända anläggningar. Hon träffade outtröttligt journalister och personligheter, höll champagneprovningar, berättade för folk om sin hemregion och väckte entusiasm hos sina gäster. Oavsett var Madame Bollinger gick, hennes oklanderliga engelska (hennes fars modersmål), hennes europeiska stil och hennes professionella inställning charmade alla hon träffade.

När hon gick ombord på den legendariska Queen Mary 21 december 1951 för att återvända till Aÿ hade hon fullbordat sitt uppdrag. Amerika, som fallit för Edith Piaf några månader tidigare, hade också fallit för ”tant Lily” och hennes champagne. Till en sådan utstäckning att hon 1961 dubbades till Frankrikes första dam i Chicagos American.

Stil kan också hittas på de mest oväntade platserna. Värdigt men ändå enkelt oavsett tillfälle, Lily Bollinger korsade sitt ”territorium” på en cykel alla var bekanta med. Inte bara i Aÿ, trots att det är det hon är mest känd för, utan ’även på andra sidan världen. Hennes cykel var så integrerad i hennes personlighet att Bollingers importör i USA beställde en sadel i krokodilskin från Hermès med initialerna LLB för Lily Lauriston Bollinger. Hon använde sin gåva med diskretion och blygsamhet. Idag är sadeln en det av samlingen som visas på muséet i huset i Aÿ.

 

PÅ VÄG OMBORD PÅ PASSAGERARFARTYGET LIBERTÉ

Under två månader reste hon runt i USA för att träffa journalister och personligheter, hålla champagneprovningar, berätta för folk om sin hemregion och väcka entusiasm hos sina gäster

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JAG, EN STILIKON?

Hon skulle nog protestera mot epiteten stilikon men ändå så hade kvinnan bakom Bollinger en mycket unik sti. Sin stil. Den klassiska Elisabeth-stilen är elegant och chic. Genom åren var pärlhalsbandet en trogen accessoar, antingen enkelt eller dubbelt. 

 

 

 

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