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Framed City of New Orleans Honorary Citizen certificate presented to Michel Roux, noted spirits executive and longtime head of Carillon Importers. Dated October 26, 1986, and signed by New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy along with multiple city council members. Features a photographic montage of New Orleans, city flag, and applied gold-tone presentation medal with red, white, and blue ribbon.
Good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, minor scratches, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Size: 14 3/4" x 20 3/4" x 1". Weight: 3.9 lbs.
From the personal 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 by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one if 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.
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