• Melissa water or Carmelite water is an alcoholic preparation made from numerous plants and spices including lemon balm.
  • Tonic and aperitif wine
  • Oil is said to have beneficial properties for hair. In 1885, Geneva native Charles Jean Guillaume Hahn came up with the idea of combining it with a hair lotion, which became Pétrole Hahn. The product is now manufactured in Reims by the company Eugène Perma.
  • One of the first powdered detergents that releases hydrogen peroxide at 60°C to whiten laundry.
  • One of the first powdered detergents that releases hydrogen peroxide at 60°C to whiten laundry.
  • Radio set
    1903: Creation of Desmet Establishments in Lille. They manufacture electrical equipment and wireless telegraphy.
    1934: They have 3 factories in the north. Activity intensifies during the Second World War, first for the Allies, then for the Germans.
    1940: It employs more than 500 workers.
    November 1943: All machines are sabotaged by the resistance. Production stops. It resumes after the war producing transistors and televisions.
    Part of the company was bought out by its employees and is still active today.
  • Radio furniture that allowed tuning to a frequency in a single operation.
  • Tourist town of Aix-les-Bains in Savoie.
  • Engine oil Essolube Pratts
  • The company "Les Amis des Fleurs" offered Parisians, for a membership fee of 25 Frs, to receive materials and plants. This initiative did not meet the expected success.
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