Version : French
Duration : 16'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - Béta SP - Mpeg4
Black & white
Scriptwriter : Marcel GIBAUD
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country
France
With
Texte dit par Pierre HATTET
Music
Guy BERNARD
Picture
Marcel GIBAUD
Stage set
Differents areas in Paris
Prize list
Selected at the XVIIth International Film Festival - Edinburgh - 1963
Archive footage
- Barge on the Canal de l'Oucq,
- Rue Mouffetard market with disc organ,
- Grocery stalls in the shopping street,
- Self-propelled cleaning truck in the rue des Halles,
- Fountain of the Innocents in its garden,
- Site of the Epée de Bois cabaret founded by Rabelais,
- 4CV car on a barge docked with a view of Notre-Dame,
- Various restaurants,
- Accordionist on the Rue de la Gaité, view of the restaurant Richefeu
- Entertainment on Rue Tiquetonne.
This film is a walk through the history of hunger in Paris. While the word “hunger” usually conjures up grim images of famine, this is only one aspect of the problem of supplying a large city, and one that should not obscure the picturesque and even funny sides of cooking and gastronomy. The history of the mills of Paris takes us from the Middle Ages to the extraordinary advice for housewives contained in the “Ménagier de Paris”. Then, after the discovery of the fork, the chicken in the pot, the great inventions of Mr de Béchamel, mayonnaise and the creation of the restaurant, we come to the 19th century, the golden age of great cuisine for some, the difficult age of industrialisation for others, the century of the great siege of Paris and its miseries.
