Château Jean Faure: Jean Chaperon-Grangère
Jean married Marguerite Delphine Rulleau (1780 – 1845) and they had six children. After Jean’s death in 1832 it was Marguerite who took over the running of the estate, and strangely the Veuve Chaperon-Grangère was recorded as still being in charge at the time the 1850 Cocks et Féret was published, despite her having died five years earlier. I can only assume the authors were working with information which was a few years out of date; either that or Marguerite had a very serious work ethic. The estate was listed quite high up in the lowly troisième classe, in the Sables de St Emilion. The domination of this particular corner of St Emilion by these négociants was plain to see, as various Chaperons were listed as proprietors of most of the larger domaines. Of these Jean-Faure was the largest, with an annual output of more than 80 tonneaux per annum.
Paul Chaperon
Sometime after Marguerite’s death in 1845 the vineyard passed to a distant cousin of her late husband named Jean-Paul Chaperon (1826 – 1903), who seems to have gone by the name of Paul. He and the late Jean Chaperon-Grangère were related, both being descendants of Arnaud Chaperon (1686 – 1719). Paul Chaperon directed the running of the Corbin and Jean Faure estates as one for more than five decades, right up until his death in 1903.
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