Category: Timeline Stories
All timeline stories.
1924
A partner of the new industrialists, and especially automakers, Potel et Chabot organizes a first dinner for Peugeot, which will become a genuine institution each year at the Auto Show. Simca, Renault and Citroën will also be faithful to the house, especially for the presentation of new models.
1920
The house, officially called “Potel et Chabot, Chevet et Gagé réunis,” has undergone a tremendous expansion since the start of the century through the purchase or merger with the best caterers, pastry chefs, ice cream specialists and candy- makers, which will broaden the professions and services proposed to its clients: Charvin, Poiré-Blanche, Rey-Rebattet, Viard- Joséphine… brought together in 1927 under the name “Lunchs et Glaciers.”
1916
The Allied Conference ends with a dinner served by Potel et Chabot, which also handles the first official postwar dinner at the Élysée Palace. Potel et Chabot is the main purveyor of the Republic and will remain so until the Élysée acquires a real kitchen and an official chef.
1912
The dinner served onboard a battleship, in Brest, in the momentum of the Franco- Russian alliance, is the first of a series of diplomatic dinners with European and worldwide repercussions. More than ever, Potel et Chabot incarnates the “gastronomic arm” of the state, as much with the Russian and British allies as well as the emperor Wilhelm II and the king of Spain.
1905
Banquet by subscription for the International Tuberculosis Congress. Large-scale charity banquets, like the famous balls of the Lits Blancs, are frequent throughout the 20th century. A tradition that continues today with fundraising dinners for major causes.
1900
After the success in 1889of a first banquet bringing together 16,000 mayors, Potel et Chabot organizes the incredible and enormous banquet of the mayors where 22,500 French mayors will lunch in huge tents set up in the Tuileries garden. The press from the whole world hails the house’s performance.
1884
Start of the Russian adventure: a first dinner offered to the czar at the French embassy is followed in 1896 by a round robin of official banquets lasting several days, given in honor of the Russian imperial couple’s arrival in France.
1858
Potel et Chabot handles the receptions of fêtes in Cherbourg, heavily covered by the media, where Napoleon III inaugurates the train station and receives Queen Victoria and that Théophile Gautier describes as the first banquet “of the future.”
1856
The imperial court of Napoleon III will remain faithful to Potel et Chabot, which organizes its “gastronomic fêtes” and notably the memorable dinner at the Paris city hall for the baptism of the emperor’s son. After the destruction of the palace during the Commune, Potel et Chabot once again will organize the inaugural dinner for the new building in 1882.
1848
Beginning of the imposing state banquets with a reception for 8,500 guests at the Champ de Mars, at the invitation of the provisional government. Potel et Chabot has the material and organization needed to serve over a thousand tables.
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