47-605: Heidsieck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Camille Heidsieck (1820–1871), 19th-century French Champagne merchant ( Charles Heidsieck ) Éric Heidsieck (born 1936), French pianist Florens-Louis Heidsieck (1749–1828), was the founder of the Champagne house Heidsieck & Co Bernard Heidsieck (1928–2014), French sound poet Emmanuelle Heidsieck (born 1963), French writer and journalist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
94-601: A spy for the French government and the Confederacy . His imprisonment sparked an international incident between France and US over what became known as The Heidsieck Incident . Charles Heidsieck was the son of Charles-Henri Heidsieck, a Champagne merchant who was famous for riding into Moscow on a white stallion in 1811 just ahead of Napoleon's advancing army. Heidsieck arrived with cases of his Champagne and his order book, ready to celebrate with whichever side would win
141-576: A diplomatic incident between the French and US government in what became known as the Heidsieck Incident . Several times, French diplomats and even Napoleon III contacted President Abraham Lincoln campaigning for Heidsieck's release. His release was finally granted on 16 November 1862. By this time, he was in frail health with his business bankrupt and his wife selling off family property to pay for his debts. Heidsieck returned to France, demoralized and broke. In early 1863, Charles Heidsieck
188-599: A dramatic and whimsical fashion. Pets are welcome. A Christmas market was held on the parvis of Reims Cathedral (Place du Cardinal-Luçon). It has since been moved in front of the Reims train station. In takes place in the month before Christmas, in 2023 this will be November 24th until December 24th. The Christmas market in Reims is the 3rd largest Christmas market in France. There are 150 different stalls each with various regional crafts, gifts, foods and specialities. This includes
235-529: A famous poutine stand. The market last year was open on Mondays from 2pm to 8pm, Tuesday to Thursday from 10:30am to 10pm, Friday from 10:30am to 10pm, Saturday from 10am to 10pm, and Sundays from 10pm to 8pm. Access to the Christmas market is free and it is accessible to people with reduced mobility. Dogs are welcome if they are on a leash. Close by, there is a large traditional Christmas tree. Restaurants and bars are concentrated around Place Drouet d'Erlon in
282-477: A small village, which was soon to blossom into one of the largest and wealthiest cities of the American West . After a few years, Heidsieck was able to sell the land and repay all his debts. With the excess fortune, he was able to relaunch his Champagne house and quickly re-establish it as one of Champagne's premier houses. In 1982, Joseph Henriot's (1936-2015) biographical adventure " Champagne Charlie "
329-624: A white dove at the baptism of Frankish king Clovis I in 496. For this reason, Reims is often referred to in French as la cité des sacres ("the Coronation City"). Reims is recognized for the diversity of its heritage, ranging from Romanesque to Art-déco . Reims Cathedral , the adjacent Palace of Tau , and the Abbey of Saint-Remi were listed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991 because of their outstanding Romanesque and Gothic architecture and their historical importance to
376-517: Is a biscuit frequently associated with Champagne wine. Reims was long renown for its pain d'épices and nonnette . Between 1925 and 1969, Reims hosted the Grand Prix de la Marne automobile race at the circuit of Reims-Gueux . The French Grand Prix took place here 14 times between 1938 and 1966. As of 2021 , the football club Stade Reims , based in the city, competed in the Ligue 1 ,
423-548: Is a candidate in the bid to become the European Capital of Culture in 2028. The Palace of Tau contains such exhibits as statues formerly displayed by the cathedral, treasures of the cathedral from past centuries, and royal attire from coronations of French kings. The Musée Saint-Remi , formerly the Abbey of Saint-Remi, contains tapestries from the 16th century donated by the archbishop Robert de Lenoncourt (uncle of
470-563: Is derived from the accusative case of the latter, Rēmos . Christianity had become established in the city by 260, at which period Saint Sixtus of Reims founded the Diocese of Reims (which would be elevated to an archdiocese around 750). The consul Jovinus , an influential supporter of the new faith, repelled the Alamanni who invaded Champagne in 336, but the Vandals captured
517-580: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Charles Camille Heidsieck Charles Camille Heidsieck (1822–1893 ) was a French Champagne merchant who founded the Champagne firm Charles Heidsieck in 1851. He is credited with popularizing Champagne in the United States and was known as "Champagne Charlie" during his stay. During the American Civil War Heidsieck was imprisoned under suspicion of being
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#1732782715715564-736: Is housed in the former Abbey of Saint-Denis. Part of the former Collège des Jésuites has also become a contemporary art gallery: the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne. The Museum of the Surrender is the building in which on 7 May 1945, General Eisenhower and the Allies received the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht . Venues include the Reims Opera House , built in 1873 and renovated in 1931–1932, and
611-599: Is the prefecture . Reims co-operates with 142 other communes in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Reims . Rue de Vesle is the main commercial street (continued under other names), traversing the city from southwest to northeast through the Place Royale . The economy of Reims is driven by the wine and Champagne industries and innovation in the bio-economic field. Reims Cathedral is an example of French Gothic architecture . The Basilica of Saint-Remi , founded in
658-724: The Hôtel de Ville dates back to the same century. The Place Royale was built in the 18th century. Some of the 1792 September Massacres took place in Reims. In the invasions of the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814, anti-Napoleonic allied armies captured and re-captured Reims. "In 1852, the Eastern Railways completed the Paris-Strasbourg main line with branch lines to Reims and Metz." In 1870–1871, during
705-567: The Franco-Prussian War , the victorious Germans made it the seat of a governor-general and impoverished it with heavy requisitions. In 1874 the construction of a chain of detached forts started in the vicinity, the French Army having selected Reims as one of the chief defences of the northern approaches to Paris. In the meantime, British inventor and manufacturer Isaac Holden had opened plants at Reims and Croix , which "by
752-532: The Fêtes Johanniques commemorate the entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429 and the coronation of Charles VII of France in the cathedral. In August and September there are regular evening light shows called Regalia projected onto the Reims Cathedral. It has a duration of 15 minutes and is free of charge. Regalia is an open-air multimedia show telling the story of the French coronations in
799-567: The Reims Manège and Circus , dating from 1865 and 1867. The Comédie de Reims was inaugurated in 1966. Libraries in Reims include a Carnegie library which was built in the 1920s. At the beginning of the year, the FARaway - Festival des Arts à Reims is a two-week event of music, dance, theatre, exhibitions, and installations at various cultural venues around the city. Every year in June,
846-780: The Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne . Founded by the Gauls , Reims became a major city in the Roman Empire . Reims later played a prominent ceremonial role in French monarchical history as the traditional site of the coronation of the kings of France . The royal anointing was performed at the Cathedral of Reims , which housed the Holy Ampulla of chrism allegedly brought by
893-432: The cardinal of the same name ), marble capitals from the fourth century AD, furniture, jewellery, pottery, weapons and glasswork from the sixth to eighth centuries, medieval sculpture, the façade of the 13th-century musicians' House, remnants from an earlier abbey building, and also exhibits of Gallo-Roman arts and crafts and a room of pottery, jewellery and weapons from Gallic civilization, as well as an exhibit of items from
940-414: The surname Heidsieck . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heidsieck&oldid=842604294 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
987-466: The 11th century "over the chapel of St. Christophe where St. Remi was buried", is "the largest Romanesque church in northern France, though with later additions." The Church of Saint-Jacques dates from the 13th to the 16th centuries. A few blocks from the cathedral, it stands as of 2009 in a neighbourhood of shopping and restaurants. The churches of Saint-Maurice (partly rebuilt in 1867), Saint-André, and Saint-Thomas (erected from 1847 to 1853, under
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#17327827157151034-647: The 1870s [...] were producing almost 12 million kilograms of combed wool a year [...] and accounted for 27 percent of all the wool consumed by French industry." On 30 October 1908, Henri Farman made the first cross-country flight from Châlons to Reims. In August 1909 Reims hosted the first international aviation meet , the Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne . Major aviation personages such as Glenn Curtiss , Louis Blériot and Louis Paulhan participated. Hostilities in World War I greatly damaged
1081-609: The Archbishop's palace and as the residence of the kings of France on the occasion of their coronations, with royal banquets taking place in the Salle du Tau . Louis VII granted the city a communal charter in 1139. The Treaty of Troyes (1420) ceded it to the English, who had made a futile attempt to take it by siege in 1360; French patriots expelled them on the approach of Joan of Arc , who in 1429 had Charles VII consecrated in
1128-675: The French monarchy. Reims also lies on the northern edge of the Champagne wine region and is linked to its production and export. Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul , Reims had served as the Remi tribe's capital, founded c. 80 BC . In the course of Julius Caesar 's conquest of Gaul (58–51 BC), the Remi allied themselves with the Romans , and by their fidelity throughout
1175-547: The Palaeolithic to the Neolithic periods. Another section of the museum features a permanent military exhibition. The Automobile Museum Reims-Champagne , established in 1985 by Philippe Charbonneaux , houses a collection of automobiles dating from 1903 to the present day. The museum has five collections: automobiles, motorcycles and two-wheelers, pedal cars, miniature toys, and enamel plaques. The Museum of Fine Arts
1222-593: The South, also absolved the agent from having to pay his debt to Heidsieck. With no other recourse, Charles Heidsieck set out for New Orleans seeking repayment directly from the merchants that received the Champagne. With the conflict of war, Heidsieck had to travel in secrecy into the South. This meant going as far out of the way as Kansas to avoid detection by the Union Army . Upon his arrival in April 1862, he found
1269-653: The United States and toured the New England area and New York State . He quickly saw the potential for the American market and retained an agent to facilitate his import sales. The mass import of Champagne was met with roaring success and record sales. When Heidsieck returned five years later, he was greeted in New York City with pomp and celebration with massive newspaper coverage and banquet receptions held in his honor. With this and subsequent trips, he developed
1316-640: The blockade, both ships were intercepted and sunk with all cargo destroyed. By this time, all routes to the North were completely sealed so Heidsieck went to New Orleans and attempted to charter a boat to Mexico or Cuba in hopes of making it back to Europe. To facilitate his passage, the French consul in Mobile gave him a diplomatic pouch with a request to deliver some documents to the consulate in New Orleans. Arriving in New Orleans on 5 May 1862, he found that
1363-659: The cathedral. Louis XI cruelly suppressed a revolt at Reims, caused in 1461 by the salt tax . During the French Wars of Religion the city sided with the Catholic League (1585), but submitted to King Henri IV after the battle of Ivry (1590). At about the same time, the English College had been "at Reims for some years." The city was stricken with plague in 1635, and again in 1668, followed by an epidemic of typhus in 1693–1694. The construction of
1410-466: The city centre. Reims, along with Épernay and Ay , functions as one of the centres of champagne production. Many of the largest champagne-producing houses , known as les grandes marques , have their headquarters in Reims, and most open for tasting and tours. Champagne ages in the many caves and tunnels under Reims, which form a sort of maze below the city. Carved from chalk , some of these passages date back to Roman times. The biscuit rose de Reims
1457-612: The city had fallen to Union forces and was immediately seized upon his arrival by General Benjamin F. Butler . Within the diplomatic pouch that was given to Heidsieck by the Mobile consulate were documents from French textile manufacturers about supplying the Confederate armies with their uniforms. Despite Heidsieck's pleas of innocence and ignorance about the documents, he was charged with spying and imprisoned in Fort Jackson, Louisiana . Charles Heidsieck's imprisonment caused
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1504-527: The city in 406 and slew Bishop Nicasius ; in 451 Attila the Hun put Reims to fire and sword. In 496—ten years after Clovis , King of the Salian Franks, won his victory at Soissons (486)— Remigius , the bishop of Reims, baptized him using the oil of the sacred phial–purportedly brought from heaven by a dove for the baptism of Clovis and subsequently preserved in the Abbey of Saint-Remi . For centuries
1551-623: The city to be nearly bankrupt and incapable of paying their debts financially. One merchant did have a warehouse full of cotton that was in high demand in Europe due to the shortages caused by the Union blockade . Heidsieck accepted the cotton as payment and attempted to smuggle the cotton out of the port in Mobile, Alabama with the use of two blockade runners . Despite ordering the ships to take different routes in hopes that at least one would make it past
1598-609: The city. German bombardment and a subsequent fire in 1914 did severe damage to the cathedral. The ruined cathedral became one of the central images of anti-German propaganda produced in France during the war, which presented it, along with the ruins of the Ypres Cloth Hall and the University Library in Louvain , as evidence that German aggression targeted cultural landmarks of European civilization. Since
1645-651: The classical " liberal arts ". (Adalberon also played a leading role in the dynastic revolution which elevated the Capetian dynasty in the place of the Carolingians .) The archbishops held the important prerogative of the consecration of the kings of France – a privilege which they exercised (except in a few cases) from the time of Philippe II Augustus (anointed 1179, reigned 1180–1223) to that of Charles X (anointed 1825). The Palace of Tau , built between 1498 and 1509 and partly rebuilt in 1675, would later serve as
1692-556: The end of World War I, an international effort to restore the cathedral from the ruins has continued. During World War II , the city suffered additional damage. On the morning of 7 May 1945, at 2:41, General Eisenhower and the Allies received the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht in Reims. General Alfred Jodl , German Chief-of-Staff, signed the surrender at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) as
1739-567: The events at the crowning of Clovis I became a symbol used by the monarchy to claim the divine right to rule. Meetings of Pope Stephen II (752–757) with Pepin the Short , and of Pope Leo III (795–816) with Charlemagne (died 814), took place at Reims; here Pope Stephen IV crowned Louis the Debonnaire in 816. King Louis IV gave the city and countship of Reims to the archbishop Artaldus in 940. King Louis VII (reigned 1137–1180) gave
1786-524: The highest tier of French football. Stade Reims became the outstanding team of France in the 1950s and early 1960s and reached the final of the European Cup of Champions twice in that era. In October 2018, the city hosted the second Teqball World Cup. The city has hosted the Reims Marathon since 1984. Reims is served by two main railway stations: Gare de Reims in the city centre,
1833-420: The patronage of Cardinal Gousset , now buried within its walls ) also draw tourists. The Protestant Church of Reims , built in 1921–1923 over designs by Charles Letrosne , is an example of flamboyant neo-Gothic architecture. The Hôtel de Ville , erected in the 17th century and enlarged in the 19th, features a pediment with an equestrian statue of Louis XIII (reigned 1610 to 1643). Narcisse Brunette
1880-685: The persona of Champagne Charlie that was a fixture of the New York high society scene. In 1861, Charles Heidsieck received news of the conflict breaking out in the United States Civil War. With more than half of his company's assets tied into unpaid accounts in the US, Heidsieck quickly left Reims and set sail for the US. Upon his arrival, he was informed by his sales agent that a new law passed by Congress aimed at absolving Northerners from having to give payment for cotton purchased from
1927-460: The representative for German President Karl Dönitz . The British statesman Leslie Hore-Belisha died of a cerebral haemorrhage while making a speech at the Hôtel de Ville in February 1957. Reims functions as a subprefecture of the department of Marne , in the administrative region of Grand Est . Although Reims is by far the largest commune in its department, Châlons-en-Champagne
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1974-413: The title of duke and peer to William of Champagne , archbishop from 1176 to 1202, and the archbishops of Reims took precedence over the other ecclesiastical peers of the realm . By the 10th century, Reims had become a centre of intellectual culture. Archbishop Adalberon (in office 969 to 988), seconded by the monk Gerbert (afterwards (from 999 to 1003) Pope Silvester II ), founded schools which taught
2021-403: The upcoming battle. Charles-Henri was the nephew of Florens-Louis Heidsieck , co-founder of the Champagne house that eventually became Piper-Heidsieck , and cousin of Henri-Louis Walbaum and Pierre Auguste Heidsieck who founded the house that eventually became known as Heidsieck & Co Monopole . Charles Camille was married to Amélie Henriot. In 1852, Charles Heidsieck first visited
2068-490: The various Gallic insurrections secured the special favour of the imperial power. At its height in Roman times the city had a population in the range of 30,000–50,000 or perhaps up to 100,000. Reims was first called Durocortorum in Latin , which is hypothesized to derive from a Gaulish name meaning "Door of Cortoro-". The city later took its name from the Remi tribe ( Rēmi or Rhēmi ). The modern French name
2115-478: Was approached by an American missionary with a packet of papers and a letter from the United States. The letter was from the brother of Heidsieck's former agent in New York. The man was ashamed of how his brother cheated Heidsieck out of his obligations and offered him a stack of deeds to land in Colorado as a means of repayment. It turned out that the deeds were of land that accounted for a third of Denver , then
2162-525: Was published in France A 1989 French-Canadian television movie Champagne Charlie portrayed Heidsieck's life. He was played by English actor Hugh Grant . Reims Reims ( / r iː m z / REEMZ ; French: [ʁɛ̃s] ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne , and the 12th most populous city in France . The city lies 129 km (80 mi) northeast of Paris on
2209-495: Was the architect of the city for nearly 50 years in the 19th century. He designed the Reims Manège and Circus , which "combines stone and brick in a fairly sober classical composition." Examples of Art Deco in Reims include the Carnegie library . The Foujita Chapel , built in 1965–1966 over designs and with frescos by Japanese–French artist Tsuguharu Foujita , has been listed as a monument historique since 1992. Reims
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