In a hotel of Havana, under the fixed sun of the Revolution: the fierce and partisan overtones of leather and tobacco meddle with the paneling’s waxen silence. In the cool dimness, fawn grimaces shimmer along with the smoke of cigars and the barrels of guns.

In 1643 Claude Trudon becomes the owner of a store on rue Saint Honoré in Paris. There he sells spices and candles.The manufacture becomes a Royal Manufacture, the one and only candle manufacture to ever obtain this title.