François Vatel, the Great Condé’s maître d’hôtel

François Vatel, the Great Condé’s maître d’hôtel

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Mémoire de la veselle dargent que Lefebvre marchant orfebvre a livré le 10^me octobre 1668…

Handwritten bifolio leaf, in-2° format

The Condé Papers (Deeds Room), 1-AB-001

This list of silver tableware delivered on 10 October 1668 for the dining service of Louis II de Bourbon-Condé, known as the Great Condé (1621-1686), is signed “Wattel”.

It is one of the rare traces of the housekeeper François Vatel (1631-1671) who at the time was acting as the prince’s maître d’hôtel.

Less than three years later, on 24 April 1671, while a party organised for Louis XIV (1638-1715) and his Court was taking place, Vatel died by suicide at the Château de Chantilly.