article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message founded in 1643 cire trudon is the oldest wax producing factory worldwide . it was the provider of the royal court of louis xiv as well as most of the great churches of france . trudon had become the biggest wax producing factory in the french kingdom during the 17th and 18th century . in 1762 in his encyclopaedia the art of the wax producer engineer duhamel du monceau praises the skills of the trudons and gives the manufacture as an example . such a level of quality earned charles trudon the appointment by king louis xiv as earl trudon des ormes . contents 1 history 1.1 claude trudon 1.2 jacques trudon 1.3 j r me trudon 2 trudon today 3 sources 4 external links history edit claude trudon edit in 1643 a salesman named claude trudon arrived in paris . he soon became the owner of a shop on saint honor which provided its customers with wax candles for any domestic usage as well as church candles to the neighbouring saint roch parish . the candles were home made developing and building on a specific manufacturing process . on the eve of the reign of louis xiv m. trudon established his first family owned factory which was to bear his name and make the fortune of his heirs . jacques trudon edit claude s son jacques took over becoming a grocer and wax producer and joined the versailles royal court in 1687 as the apothecary and distiller of queen marie th r se . at the time wax was under high scrutiny . carefully collected on the hive it was bleached through a series of pure water baths that washed off all the impurities . dried in the open air the wax was whitened by sunlight . when burning the flame lit the translucent edges generating the glowing aura of the candle . j r me trudon edit in 1737 j r me trudon heir of the family purchased one of the most famous wax producing factories of the times that belonged to lord pean de saint gilles . pean de saint gilles was then the official wax provider to the king . drawing from the family expertise hierosme devoted his skills to the development of a vast factory . skilful and very demanding he produced a wax of very high quality collecting it from the best hives of the kingdom and trading directly with the producers . the wax was then treated with the utmost attention it was washed with the purest water after being filtered with gypsum guaranteeing the highest quality . the factory also imported the finest cotton to manufacture wicks whose combustion was clean and regular . the trudon candles so white and so perfect could burn for hours without crackling ; their flame neither trembled nor smoked . maison trudon furnished candles to the royal court and cathedrals and churches over france . more than one hundred people worked at the time in a very large building now registered in the french inventory of historical monuments in the city of antony hauts de seine . its latin motto and its blazon are engraved on a stone board of the factory building a depiction of hives and bees bordered by the saying deo regique laborant they work for god and for the king they meaning the bees . trudon today edit maison trudon still keep records of recipe and tools of wax whitening wrought iron 17th century pans . the moulds used to form candles bearing the royal blazons still remain cierge pascal pour la chapelle du roy versailles bougies de nuit pour le roy easter candle church for the royal chapel in versailles night candle for the king trudon supplied the versailles castle until the end of the monarchy . during his captivity louis xvi used the candles of his royal wax manufacturer . the blazon and the motto would be hidden under a layer of mortar to avoid the furies of the revolution . it is still today the candle provider of many churches like saint roch church in paris which has burned their candles since 1643 . the brand was successfully relaunched in 2006 . the manufacture distributes its products in france and abroad . sources edit trudon in the encyclopedia biblioth que des sciences et des beaux arts 1754 trudon in the book napol on et son fils 1929 external links edit cire trudon trudon cited in honor de balzac s the human comedy the rise and fall of cesar birotteau retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trudon & oldid 725239214 categories waxes1643 establishments in francecompanies of francecompanies established in 1643hidden categories articles needing additional references from february 2012all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 14 june 2016 at 12 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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