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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. At the time of the will, (1829) Vaud had only been a Swiss Canton for 16 years. Prior to 1803, the land was ruled by the Canton of Bern. Bern had seized the French speaking area from the Dukes of Savoy in 1475. After the Reformation, most of the area that became the Canton of Vaud became Protestant in 1526. Curiously, Echallens remained Catholic. Surely, some of the cleaning and cooking about the inn were delegated to the two girls.

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. It was the quickest pick-me-up after a night-of-it that my stomach has ever known. It saved hundreds of newspapermen, artists, and even judges of the Supreme Court from an early enforced sobriety. This thick redemptive mixture of onions, bread, and what else, Mother Mouquin? Not only put you back instantly on your feet, but also caused a delightful yelp of the belly juices for a carafe of vin blanc.". The chimneys he set up with bricks made in his own brickyard?

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. On a slope above the South bank of the Sparkill Creek, our old house has sheltered the Mouquin family for 100 years - a silent witness to the joys and sorrows of four generations of family history. Such a legacy does not come without the obligation to preserve the structure for future generations. On closer examination, evidence of an 18th Century stone house is hidden under the 19th Century exterior. The stonewalls under the front porch still sport their origina...

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. The auberge operated by Veuve Mouquin in January of 1829 was located in Echallens, roughly fifteen kilometers north of Lausanne, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The words, "de L'Abbaye" written after the name of her late husband, David, did not mean that David had been born in the town of L'Abbaye, as I first thought. This site was created by James Mouquin. If you have any problems with it please email him here. This is also a good place to say how great he is.

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. A TASTE OF WINE. In Aubonne, Louis operated an auberge called Le Bornalet,. On a slope of terraced vineyards overlooking Lake Geneva, about twenty kilometers southwest of Lausanne. Charles and I visited Aubonne in November 2000, and located the house still called Le Bornalet. As Henri served wine in his father's inn, he listened to the adventures of the travelers and could hardly contain his own desire to travel. His Uncle Morel was already in New York. Henri left Pa...

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. During that time, both William Ferdon and his son John W. Ferdon were involved in a feud within the congregation of the Piermont Reformed Church. Members of the Tappan Reformed Church who lived in Piermont had organized the church in 1839, shortly after the building of the Piermont Pier. The original church building was located high on the hill overlooking the Hudson, in the area around Piermont Place. Mr Ferdon, as his name indicates, is of French descent? After twi...

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. One summer, I dragged out an intriguing black metal box filled with old family documents and letters. I carried the curious box down three flights of stairs to sort through it is better air and light on the front porch. Among the papers I discovered an old will from Echallens, Switzerland, beautifully calligraphed in French and dated January 2, 1829. I leave to the poor of Echallens, without distinction of religion, 16 francs payable upon my death. SiGNED IN The pres...

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. At the turn of the Century, Henri and Jeanne Louise Mouquin were suffering from a marital scandal that had erupted while they were living on a chicken farm in Nanuet, New York, in November of 1900. The farm supplied fresh eggs and poultry to the family restaurant business in New York City. In 1905, William Glackens painted Chez Mouquin inside the Parisian style caf, posing Jeanne Louise Mouquin with another restaurant owner, Robert Moore of the Caf Francis. The C...

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A Taste of Wine. The Old Stone House. According to Benjamin de Casseres, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Ward Beecher, Cardinal McCloskey, Whitelaw Reid, Amos J. Cummings, John Hay, Chester A. Arthur, General Grant, Larry Godkin, Walt Whitman, O'Henry, Jack London; almost everybody who was anybody hung out at Mouquin's at various times. O'Henry sketched many a plot on the tablecloths. Benjamin de Casseres related the following story about Mouquin's Uptown:. This is also a good place to say how great he is.