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Do you know who Ogmius was, for the ancient peoples? Along with Toutatis, the god of death and Taranis, the god of thunder, he was one of the main gods of the Celtic religion. He represented strength, eloquence, wisdom and beauty. He was the one to lead the souls of the deceased to the kingdom of the dead on chains of gold.
– Ogmius, Geoffrey Ratouis (published 2010)
The house of Bouvet-Ladubay was founded in 1851 by Etienne Bouvet (1828 – 1908) and his wife Célestine Ladubay, following their purchase of a riverside plot in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, complete with eight kilometres of underground galleries and tunnels. In doing so he was following in the footsteps of his one-time employer, Jean-Baptiste Ackerman (1790 – 1866), who had set up what would become Ackerman-Laurance four decades earlier. Etienne saw continued potential for sparkling wine in the region, and he was eager to take advantage of the knowledge of the winemaking process which Ackerman had brought to Saumur from Champagne.
Etienne’s success was nothing short of legendary, and he grew in status, the one-time would-be vigneron becoming one of Saumur’s most wealthy philanthropists. He built not only cellars and warehouses, but mansions and theatres too, a number of which still grace the back streets of Saumur today. But tongues soon began to wag. Had Etienne Bouvet really made his money though the sales of sparkling wine? Rumours that he had found treasure in the darkest recesses of the cellars he had purchased began to take hold, the locals seemingly preferring to believe fame and fortune came from serendipity or skulduggery rather than simple hard graft.
In his novel Ogmius (Éditions Turnover, 2010), also titled The Secret of Etienne Bouvet, author Geoffrey Ratouis takes the side of the local peasants and imagines exactly what form such treasure might have taken, and exactly what Etienne might have done with it after finding it. He names the treasure Ogmius (and I don’t think I am giving anything away by revealing it is something more tangible than the myth of an ancient deity),
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