"Most of the comedic women were playing supporting roles to men in sitcoms." Alamy In the driving seat - French as Thelma and Saunders as Louise, in their parody of the famous road-trip movie But ...

It was built by Widow Clicquot - Veuve Clicquot in French - a name more closely associated with famous champagne than with an actual woman. But she was very real. In 1805, when she was just 27 ...