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Black entrepreneur breaks into France's exclusive champagne club

Marie-Ines Romelle (PHOTO; Reuters)

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.

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