Louis Béchameil de Nointel
Louis de Béchameil , marquis of Nointel born in 1630 and died in 1703, was a financier French.
Farmer general strong rich person, superintendent of the house of the duke of Orleans, it is intendant of police force, justice and finances of the general information of Tours (1684-1689), then of the province of Champagne, and police chief separated (similar station) in Brittany (1691-1705), then acquired of the load of Master of hotel of Louis XIV.
He is especially known like gourmet and enlightened art lover.
The Sauce bechamel sauce which bears its name today was, in fact, the result of the improvement of a older Sauce containing cream, by François Pierre of the Game preserve (1615 - 1678), cook of the marquis d' Uxelles, who dedicated it to him, as often the cooks for the nobility of the time did it, which started a sarcastic remark with the old duke of Escars: “Is it happy, this small Béchameil! I had made serve as the thin slices of white of Volaille with the cream more than twenty years before it was in the world and, see, however I never had happiness to be able to give my name to smallest sauce! ”
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