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unusual facts about Villeroy & Boch


Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.


Audun-le-Tiche

The Villeroy & Boch ceramic manufacturing company was founded in 1748 in Audun by François Boch.

John of Bohemia

During the confusion of the French Revolution the mortal remains were salvaged by the Boch industrialist family (founders of Villeroy & Boch, ennobled in 1892) and hidden in an attic room in Mettlach on the Saar River.


see also

Boch

François Boch (1695–1794), a founder of manufacturer Villeroy & Boch

Vieux Luxembourg

For Villeroy & Boch, that step was the establishment of a pottery in Audun-le-Tiche, Lorraine on April 1st, 1748 their first pattern, Vieux Luxembourg.