Thread: Victor Klotz & Edouard Pinaud-A History

Apologies to the Mods if I've put this in the wrong place.
This is the best history of Ed Pinaud I've found thus far:

LINK: https://onbeyondholcombe.wordpress.c...-manufacturer/

Bongo-

Thanks for posting this--was a fascinating read. Considering the fate of many traditional men's products, I am amazed and grateful that Pinaud has lasted these many years.

I only wish that I had discovered them as a younger man--I missed out for too long..

Marty E.

Actually the history goes back quite a few years prior to the formal beginnings of the outfit. Few realize the forerunner of Lilac Vegetal had been formulated in the 1700s. During the French Revolution as they were manning the barricades in Paris as the Army advanced upon them and the partisans were without projectiles they found a case of the AS and started throwing the bottles at the troops. As the bottles broke the troops fell like rats, dead in seconds. When the military command heard about what happened, that massacre is what actually started the French Revolution.

Just a little known tidbit of history.

Awesome read.. still don't like Clubman but the company is interesting!
Thank!
~Richard

Spendur--

Not sure if that is completely accurate..couldn't the French have done the same thing during WW2---as the Nazis rolled into Paris they could have been repelled by the constant barrage of lilac vegetal from the rooftops--and yet they chose not to fight.

Maybe the barber supply shops were closed that day..

Marty E.