Again I wouldn't want keep going off topic but Louis Noilly took over the business - a product created to compete with imported fashionable Italian vermouths at the time - from his father in 1811. He had a beautiful daughter he needed to marry off and there were many suitors whom he thought were more interested in getting hold of the business and their money than her. He imposed two years hard work under his orders to whoever dared to ask for his daughter's hand. A mysterious Englishman by the (improbable) name of Claudius Prat (believe me, I'm not making this up) came by one day, fell in love with the beautiful daughter and accepted all the conditions laid down. At the end of the two years he was offered a partnership in the business and was allowed to add his name to Noilly - he seems to have had enough beautiful children to continue his name ever since 1813. Is maith liom an greadóg seo. So as they say in Marseillan, once you're a Prat, is Prat tú go deo na ndeor.