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Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin was a woman ahead of her time. Born in 1777 to wealthy textile industrialist and politician Ponce Jean Nicolas Philippe Ponsardin in Reims, France, she grew up in the luxurious Hotel Ponsardin where her next-door neighbors were the Clicquot family.
Philippe Clicquot ran a successful textile business in competition with the Ponsardins. In an effort to eliminate competition, the two fathers arranged for the 21-year-old Barbe-Nicole to marry the young Francois Clicquot in 1798, thus amalgamating the two businesses.
Although the marriage was arranged, Barbe-Nicole and Francois hit it off and developed an interest in wine, which both families dabbled in as a side business. Their love of wine did not translate into success, and the business struggled financially early. In 1805, young Francois succumbed to typhoid fever, leaving Barbe-Nicole a widow at 28. Veuve is the French word for widow, so Barbe-Nicole became known as the Widow Clicquot, or Veuve Clicquot.