Classic French aperitif named after the priest, editor-in-chief and politician Félix-Adrien Kir (1876-1968). He was an extraordinary personality. During the German occupation of France in the Second World War (1939-1945), he was a member of the Resistance and facilitated the escape of 5,000 French prisoners of war. He was arrested and sentenced to death, but released.
In 1945, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. His primary concern was to secure peace through reconciliation. As a member of the French National Assembly, together with the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) and Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), he was a co-founder of Franco-German friendship, for which he was honoured with the German Federal Cross of Merit. From 1945 to 1968, he was mayor of the Burgundian city of Dijon and was held in the highest esteem by the population.
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