Jean Martell (1694–1753) founded the French cognacdistilleryMartell. The company is based in the department of Charente and is nearly three centuries old – one of the oldest in France.
Maison Martell, in Cognac in Charente (France) (registered, 1995). The building in the middle of a square courtyard was the home of Jean Martell. This and the surrounding buildings were built in 1850[disputed – discuss] by the architect Eugène Demangeat.
Son of Thomas and Martha Martell Héraud, Jean Martell was born in 1694 in the parish of St Brelade, on the Island of Jersey where the family of merchants had settled in the 11th century. After working in Guernsey, he founded his trading house of spirits in 1715 at Gatebourse[1] in Cognac, France,[2] where he joined forces with a merchant from Bordeaux, Jean Hot. Originally they bought casks of cognac and wine for export to the Channel Islands and Europe.[3] The company went bankrupt and then was revived. From 1721 Martell was exporting more than 200,000 litres of cognac to England,[1] with the Duke of Orléans his most prestigious client, soon followed by George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
In 1726, he married Jeanne Brunet, daughter of a Cognac merchant, then in 1737, married his second wife, Rachel Lallemand, who was from a family of traders in Charente. At this time, he bought land along the Charente river where he developed his company.[3] Martell sold wines and spirits to the countries of northern Europe (England, the Netherlands, Germany) and to the colonies of North America. In 1869, his descendants, who took over and expanded the Martell business, established branches in the English factories of Hong Kong and Canton.
^ ab. Luxury Insider. 16 November 2011. Archived from the original on 25 November 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
^"300 Years of History". www.martell.com. Pernod-Ricard.
^ ab"Martell Cognac". Difford's Guide. 30 August 2011.
Bibliographyedit
Les Traces de la Nouvelle-France : au Québec et en Poitou-Charentes, by Marc St-Hilaire, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2008
La Naissance d'une dynastie du cognac Richard Hennessy 1727 - 1800, by Monique Le Tac
Le Choix de Cognac: l'établissement des négociants irlandais en eau-de-vie au XVIIIe siècle, by Louis Cullen
April 11, 2024
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