Hippolyte Jammet (1893 - 1964)
Founder of the Hotel Le Bristol Paris

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Hippolyte Jammet (1893 - 1964)
son of François Jammet (1853 - 1940) and Eugenie Loisel (1865 - 1949)
nephew of Michel Jammet (1858 - 1931)
husband of Yvonne Mollard (1904 - 2003)
father of Pierre Jammet (1925 - 2018)
clients of Cremerie de Paris


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Hippolyte Jammet's parents

1888 Francois Jammet became the chef of the Cafe de Deux Mondes, rue de la Paix
bebore switching to the restaurant Bouef à la Mode, rue de Valois, Palais Royal


Hippolyte Jammet

Cremerie de Paris


Cremerie de Paris is part of a century old mansion,
since 1370 home of the Villeroy family,
merchands of the Halles foodmarket that became State advisors
and pied-à-terre of the Bourbons, Kings of France.
The young King Louis XIV, had spend parts of his childhood
at the house which was owned by his teacher Nicolas V de Villeroy.


1617 Nicolas V de Villeroy had inherited the old family mansion
from his grandfather Nicolas IV de Villeroy.
1640 To prepare the arrival of the young King the house was rebuilt.
The central staircase, l'éscalier d'honneur,
has iron railings with two N°5 logos forged into them.
In the Villeroy family the oldest boy was usually called Nicolas.
Nicolas 5, was the 5th Nicolas in the family line.
Instead of using his initials he choose to have two The N°5 symbols in the railings.


As an adult Louis XIV build the Palace of Versailles.
He and the Villeroy children were great friends from earliest childhood times.

1671 the Vileroys decided to sell the house
and the Villeroy children François de Villeroy and Catherine de Villeroy
mooved to the Versailles Palace.

The VB mansion became an avant garde Telecom companie.
Telecom activities lastet until 1738,
even though the Telecom genes stayed in our walls
so Telecom came back to life in 1986,
creating the basis for the Phone Book of the World,
editor of this website
but this is another story.


1848, Napoleon III, a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
became President of France
1852, he became emperor creating the Second French Empire.
1853, january 29 and 30 he married Eugenie de Montijo
probably the biggest fashionista of her times.



Napoleon III had the project to finish a plan
his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte (1789 - 1821) did not have the time to finish.
The project was to renovate the centuries old Les Halles foodmarket.


His wife changed about everything and became the chef designer of the project.
She did not like the first Pavillon Baltard
and asked the architect Victor Baltard to completely change everything
and to use iron and galss constructions she had seen in London.



The Empress also asked Eugène Haussmann
to change the axis of the future rue des Halles,
so that the magical VB mansion would stay in place.


Back in the 1860s Eugenie had comissioned the construction of the Paris foodmarket
which was the world's most beautiful market.

Cremerie de Paris is part of both
the historic VB mansion located on 9 rue des Déchargeurs
and a new building construted on the corner of 15 rue des Halles
beeung a connection point of both
the France of the times of the Bourbon Kings
and the one of the Second Empire.

1870 Attacked by Prussia during the Franco Prussian war
the Second Empire came to an end and Empress Eugenie had to leave the country.
Linving until 1920 she was nostalgic about Paris
and repeated the fairytales of the VB mansion and her beloved Halles Centrales foodmarket
to a great great aunt of the editor of this website,
but this is another story.