The whims of fate have made the Château de Grammont, near Tours, the headquarters of the Professional School of French Culinary Art, that is to say, an academy where artists of the first art will be trained.

First of all, to achieve a work of this importance, it was necessary to secure powerful means supported by generosity and deep convictions. They were found in Tours, the capital of this beautiful garden of France with its luxuriant vegetation, so fertile in everything necessary for the devotion of the culinary art.

Without it being necessary to lay siege to it, Tours was taken, even smitten by the idea; and Mr. Camille Chautemps, while he was still only the deputy-mayor, gave his support to the masters Escoffier and Montagné for the realization of the project of this School of application.

The Minister of the Interior is certainly one of the best informed on many things; he also knows the persuasive power of the French Table. The National School of the First Art is now installed in the appropriate historical setting, at the cradle of the best regionalism.

Under the tireless activity of its Secretary General, Mr. Gien, the French Table increases, strengthens its foundations every day; it includes personalities who are gastronomic by definition since: literary, journalistic, political, and the high priests of French cuisine.

It is also in his honor that the first lunch animating the new destinies of the Château de Grammont will be given soon. Great chefs: Mr. Frémont, from Paris, Messrs. Jean Fontbonne and Pilault, from Tours, will have to challenge science to refined taste; they will take on a program that will be for the students of the new academy an impeccable model at the same time as the best emulation for their ambition.

We know what the students who leave the nursery will owe to Mr. Henri Letellier and Mr. Maurice Leducq, as continuators of the masters who know how to give life one of the first satisfactions, on which many others depend.

Vidal.

Regional craftsmanship travels

Without there being a split, it is said, the regional craftsmen's federations separate from the General Confederation of French Craftsmanship and take the title of: French Craftsmanship.

This separation is motivated by a difference of opinion on the application of the law on craftsmanship credit, the conception of the Artisans of Paris seeming to harm the interests of the Artisans of the provinces.

The headquarters of French Craftsmanship would be provisionally fixed in Lyon. (The Herriot attraction!)