Black entrepreneur breaks into France’s exclusive champagne club
14 February 2021 |
3:11 pm
When Marie-Ines Romelle, a Black woman born on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, decided to join the exclusive world of France's Champagne producers, she saw no one who looked like her.
Instead of being intimidated, she applied the motto by which she tries to live her life. "You have to dare. When we dare, we manage to push open doors," she said.
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