Travel Guide Mennecy

?? The name is now synonymous with that of a town of almost 13 000 inhabitants and a population particularly young with regard to the French average: at the last census, nearly 30% of the population was under the age of. Historically, the place is closely attached to the history of porcelain. In the th century, with the fascination of China and China porcelain, this art develops in France. Manufactures are developing in Vincennes and Chantilly, but also in Mennecy, where a worker who mastered the secrets of the tender porcelain of Saint-Cloud installs a factory around 1735, on the land of François-Anne de Neufville, duke and pair of Villeroy. D.V. products are characterized by fine motives, with gay tones, first inspired by the Orient and then, in the second half of the th century, combine bouquets, fruits and birds. A flower or fruit button overcoming the lids and pink-purple tenderloin are the characteristic signs of the parts. Statutory biscuit groups reach a level of quality that places them at the rank of the largest.