Pierre Taittinger
Pierre Taittinger | |
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Member of the National Assembly | |
In office 1919–1942 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18th arrondissement of Paris, France | 4 October 1887
Died | 22 January 1965 16th arrondissement of Paris, France | (aged 77)
Children | Guy Pierre-Christian Jean Claude |
Education | Collège Stanislas |
Pierre-Charles Taittinger (4 October 1887 – 22 January 1965) was the founder of the
Personal life
Born in Paris, Pierre Taittinger's family were originally from
Taittinger married Gabrielle Guillet (1893–1924) in 1917. In 1925 he married Anne-Marie Mailly (1887–1986). He died in Paris in 1965 and was buried in Reims at the cimetière du Nord with his third son François (1921–1960) who had run the Taittinger champagne house between 1945 and 1960.
His son Michel, a French military hero and second lieutenant in the 66th African Artillery Regiment of the French Army, died on 15 June 1940 at the age of 20 in the city of Saint Parres-aux-Tertres, near Troyes in the Champagne region. He had held off for five hours a Panzer division of General
Another of Taittinger's sons, Jean Taittinger, was deputy mayor of Reims from 1959 to 1977, Secretary of State for Budget from 1971 to 1973 and State Minister of Justice from 1973 to 1974 in the administration of Georges Pompidou.
Political career
He was mayor of Saint-Georges-des-Coteaux, in the same département, from 1919 until 1937, and again from 1953 until his death in 1965. In 1924 he was elected deputy of the 1st arrondissement of Paris, and held this mandate until 1940.
In 1924, Taittinger founded the
In 1937, he was elected to the municipal council of Paris and to the departmental council of the
On August 17, 1944, concerned that explosives were being placed at strategic points around Paris by the Germans, Taittinger met with the German military governor
Champagne business
Taittinger, who, before the First World War, had run a business involved in the distribution and export of
Forest-Fourneaux, renamed Ets Taittinger Mailly & Cie, was transformed by Taittinger into a world-famous champagne house, Champagne Taittinger, operating from the cellars of the Saint-Nicaise Abbey in Reims. Pierre Taittinger restored the House of the Counts of Champagne in the center of Reims, damaged by the Germans during the First World War, which had been the residence of the Counts of Champagne during the Middle Ages, now the property of Champagne Taittinger. He bequeathed his estate of La Grainetière, on the Isle of Rhé, to the city of Reims, which has become a summer camp for the children of Reims.
External links
- Callil, Carmen. Bad Faith: a forgotten history of family, fatherland, and Vichy France. 2006
- Taittinger, Claude. Michel Tattinger: 1920-1940. 1990