France's Last Empress with Petie Kladstrup & Evelyne Resnick
Authors Petie Kladstrup & Evelyne Resnick discuss how important Eugénie de Montijo's life and legacy.
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Today’s special episode is an interview with Petie Kladstrup and Evelyne Resnick.
Kladstrup, with her husband Don, is the author of three previous books about the history of France through the prism of wine: Wine & War: the French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure, Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed over War and Hard Times and Champagne Charlie: the Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne. In addition, Petie is author of a family memoir: In the Presence of Forever: the Story of the White Dove, and the editor of a guide for overseas-educated students preparing to attend American universities. She is also the author of a soon-to-be-published children's story drawn from the life of Empress Eugénie: Reine, the Turtle Who Guarded the Pyramids. She is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club of America Award for international reporting, was a reporter for midwestern newspapers and also served as assistant to the U.S. ambassador to UNESCO.
French born and educated, Evelyne Resnick holds a Ph.D in cultural studies from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She shared her time and career between teaching at UCLA and various universities in Europe, managing an international communications agency in Paris and writing books and articles in French and in English. Her favorite ones are her biography of Leonard Bernstein, her book on wine history and business and her most recent book with her co-author on Empress Eugénie. Several of her books received awards and were translated in different languages.
Today we are discussing their new book The Last Empress of France: The Rebellious Life of Eugénie de Montijo.
Evelyne Resnick
French born and educated, Evelyne Resnick holds a Ph.D in cultural studies from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She shared her time and career between teaching at UCLA and various universities in Europe, managing an international communication agency in Paris and writing books and articles in French and in English. Her favorite ones (an author can play favorites with books) are her biography of Leonard Bernstein, her book on wine history and business and, of course, the latest one on Empress Eugénie. Several of her books received awards and were translated in different languages.
Petie Kladstrup
Petie Kladstrup, with her husband Don, is the author of three previous books about the history of France through the prism of wine: Wine & War: the French, the Nazis and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure, published by Broadway Books; Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed over War and Hard Times, William Morrow Books, and Champagne Charlie: the Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne, Potomac Books. In addition, Petie is author of a family memoir: In the Presence of Forever: the Story of the White Dove, and the editor of a guide for overseas-educated students preparing to attend American universities. She is also the author of a soon-to-be-published children's story drawn from the life of Empress Eugénie: Reine, the Turtle Who Guarded the Pyramids. Petie is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club of America Award for international reporting, was a reporter for midwestern newspapers and also served as assistant to the U.S. ambassador to UNESCO.