Michel Roux National Aeronautic Association and Lafayette Honors
A pair of framed honors presented to Michel Roux. Includes a National Aeronautic Association Certificate of Appreciation recognizing his support of the U.S. ballooning community, and a March 1, 1976, City of Lafayette, Louisiana proclamation naming Roux an honorary citizen, signed by Mayor Kenneth F. Bowen and mounted with a badge.
These items are pre-owned, previously stored/displayed, with minor imperfections, age-related wear, dust/debris, and surface markings. Please refer to all photos for full details.
Together: 17" x 12" x 3". Weight: 7.4 lbs.
From the collection of Michel Roux, the liquor icon. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned in the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one of its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000, Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
A pair of framed honors presented to Michel Roux. Includes a National Aeronautic Association Certificate of Appreciation recognizing his support of the U.S. ballooning community, and a March 1, 1976, City of Lafayette, Louisiana proclamation naming Roux an honorary citizen, signed by Mayor Kenneth F. Bowen and mounted with a badge.
These items are pre-owned, previously stored/displayed, with minor imperfections, age-related wear, dust/debris, and surface markings. Please refer to all photos for full details.
Together: 17" x 12" x 3". Weight: 7.4 lbs.
From the collection of Michel Roux, the liquor icon. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned in the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one of its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000, Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.
