Framed State of Louisiana Executive Department commission appointing Michel Roux as Colonel on the Staff of Governor Edwin W. Edwards and Aide-de-Camp, Governor’s Staff. Issued in Baton Rouge on October 24, 1986, bearing the Louisiana state seal and signature of Governor Edwin W. Edwards. Original certification card remains affixed to the reverse.
Good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear, minor scratches, and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full condition details.
Size: 19 1/2" x 16 1/2" x 1 1/4". 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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