Description "At the beginning of the 18th century, a man named Pierre Brizard arrived in Bordeaux, found himself a wife and settled into a quiet life-if fathering fifteen children can be considered quiet. Finding names for them proved to be one of the biggest problems for the unpretentious couple, and so they had, for example, three sons named Martial, three girls named Jeanne, and three others named Marie. But only the eldest of the Maries, born in 1714, brought honor to the family name, although at first that didn't seem to be the case. Far from showing any talent for business, she did charity work among the poor and sickly, expecting no reward. Yet she was repaid beyond anyone's wildest dreams: One day, an indigent young woman from a faraway land, grateful for Marie's kindness, divulged to her a recipe for a potent cure used by the natives of her homeland, which she believed would benefit Marie's ailing charges. Based on Anis, the remedy, laced with alcohol to make it more palatable, proved to be so popular that demand for it soon went beyond the sick, and Marie found herself in business. It was then that she joined forces with an ambitious young man named Jean-Baptiste Roger, son of a prosperous tailor, who set up a distilling operation for her, and in due course married her niece Anne. The highly successful company went public in 1984 and now exports its products in 120 countries" (Cappiello/Rennert, p. 166). This variant of the poster doesn't mention the company name or its anisette in the text that would typically appear at-bottom; however, all of this information can be seen on the bottles being carried by the three revelers parading the complete line of Marie Brizard & Roger liqueurs.