Florens-Louis Heidsieck

Heidsieck was the son of a Lutheran minister from Westphalia, and had moved to Reims to work as a cloth merchant.

[1][2] Florens-Louis Heidsieck founded his eponymously named Champagne house in 1785.

He presented his champagne to Queen Marie Antoinette in 1788.

His nephew Christian Heidsieck joined the company in 1800.

After his only son died, in 1814 Florens-Louis Heidsieck asked German great-nephews Frédéric-Auguste Delius, Charles-Henri Heidsieck, Henri-Louis Walbaum and Christian Heidsieck to work for the family business, followed by Henri-Guillaume Piper in 1815.