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thumb Bénédictine is a herbal liqueur beverage developed by Alexandre Le Grand in the 19th century and produced in France. ==Founding and company== It is claimed that at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy, monks had developed a medicinal aromatic herbal beverage which was produced until the abbey's devastation during the French Revolution, but in fact Alexandre Le Grand invented the recipe himself, helped by a local chemist, and he told this story to connect the liqueur with the city history to increase sales.〔According to an interview of Alain Le Grand, last family owner of the distillery in the TV-Document ''Le Palais bénédictine de Fécamp'' on FR3 – Normandie.〕 He began production under the trade name "Bénédictine", using a bottle with an easily recognizable shape and label. The family eventually sold the company to Martini and Rossi, which was in turn bought by Bacardi. The recipe is a closely guarded trade secret, purportedly known to only three people at any given time. So many people have tried to reproduce it that the company maintains on its grounds in Fécamp a "Hall of Counterfeits" (''Salle des Contrefaçons''). The bottle and label have been imitated, as has the name ''Bénédictine''. The company prosecuted those it felt to be infringing on its intellectual property. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bénédictine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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