Chazelles sur Lyon (Loire) France (Flechet, VENET, Others)

[mayserwegener]

I was searching for the old French hat trade publication "Revue de la Chapellerie" and came across this site (in French).

http://www.chazelles-histoire.net/

Chazelles sur Lyon (Loire) was a hat making center (Flechet, VENET, ect) in France. They have a hat museum there today.

http://www.museeduchapeau.com/la-chapellerie.html

They are restoring the old Flechet factory.

[video=dailymotion;xfff22]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfff22_du-site-flechet-a-la-chapellerie_news[/video]

By the way here is a photo of the front page of "Revue de la Chapellerie" March - April 1938. This is similar to "The American Hatter" and other trade publications from Germany, England, Austria and Italy. Would be nice to find copies (digital or print) of this publication (first published 1889).

 

[Chepstow]

Steve, fantastic site! A lot of Documents and photos, great find!

 

[mayserwegener]

Manfred, Thanks!

Here are some interesting photos!

 

[rlk]

1926 Articles in French

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B27h4AGQ4EYaMVhCOTkzcng5cEE

No preview so you need to download it.

 

[rlk]

I have about 20 loose pages from La Revue de la Chapellerie from 1920 and 1921. I'l try to get them scanned.

 

[randooch]

Il faut que je practise ma Francais. (See what I mean?)

 

[mayserwegener]

Robert, Thank you for posting the 1926 French article! It would be great to see the La Revue de la Chapellerie pages from 1920,21.