Kasteel en Tuinen van Freÿr / Maas (België)

Bright and joking : angelwee

• Humbert de Laubespin had the temper of his mother (Louise) rather than of his father (Théodule). He pursued bright studies at Namur and Brussels (ULB), as a straight A student.
• He was the youngest Diplomatic Minister of his generation and died unfortunately when he was 49.
• He was representing Belgium in Luxemburg after the First World War and negotiated the Belgo-Luxemburgian Union.
• His wife, Odette Lagarde, a French woman by birth, became Belgian by marriage.
  • She was pursued by the French Ambassadress, who found unacceptable that Odette helped Humbert and did not let France be influential in Luxemburg.
  • Odette had to recall her that she had become Belgian.
• Humbert was facetious. One day during an official dinner in Luxemburg, µ he asked his neighbor: "Pass me some of this angelwee." Indeed, many vintages names are ending in Ange(l) in the Grand Duchy!