Alix Hessen (1872 - 1918)
Alexandra Feodorovna
Tsarina of Russia / Empress of Russia
Александра Фёдоровна Романова

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Wife of Tsar Nicolas II, Last Tsarina

links to other people in relation with VB.com daughter of Louis IV of Hessen and by the Rhine & Alix of the United Kingdom grand-daughter of Queen Victoria friend of Empress Eugénie of the French mother of Olga Romanov mother of Tatiana Romanov mother of Maria Romanov mother of Anastasia Romanov mother of Alexei Romanov aunt and educator of Dmitri Romanov sister of Ernst Ludwig Hessen sister in law of Eleonore Solms aunt of Carl Solms aunt of Friederike Solms great-great aunt of Cremerie de Paris

Legendes about Cremerie de Paris

The Tsarina had a passion for her children
She was not interested in politics, state affairs, court issues ...
All she liked were the children and her husband.

At night she told them fairytale stories
The most beautiful ones were about a certain "Cremerie de Paris",
a milk store at the iconic Halles Centrales foodmarket in heart of the French capital.



Cremerie de Paris is part of a century old mansion
where another child, the young Bourbon King Louis XIV had lived a long time ago.
It was the house of the children François and Catherine de Villeroy,
their father was the tutor of the young boy, later called Sunking.

Later they all lived at the Palace of Versailles.
The stories had a secret code "VB" so that adults
would know what their sorties were about.




The Tsarina knew these stories from her childhood friend
the French Empress Eugenie that was still alive and that lived the United Kingdom in exile.
Eugenie was a friend of her own grandmother, Queen Victoria
mother of her own mother Alice that had died.

Empress Eugénie had lost her only child and loved Alix (the Tsarina)
and sometimes before Alix went to bed,
Eugénie came to tell her about the Cremerie de Paris.



As a young woman Eugenie had married the French Emperor Napoléon III
with the project to make Paris become the world's most beautiful city.
The new foodmarket at Les Halles Centrales was the project of Eugénie.
She knew the détail of everything.

The market was made of the Pavillons Baltard, 10 glass iron pavillions
and some beautiful newly erected avenues like the Rue des Halles.
On the corner of number 15 rue des Halles
and the centuries old rue des Déchargeurs was located the Cremerie de Paris.

When a grand reception was going on in St Petersburg,
food was coming from this market brought to Russia with the Nord Express train.



The Tsarina with her smaller children,
Maria, Anastasia and Alexei talking about the Cremerie de Paris.

Every time the Tsarina come up with new the Cremerie de Paris stories,
so many things had happened in Les Halles,
the children couldn't wait for the next épisode ....