Vatel (hospitality Management School)
Vatel may refer to: * François Vatel (1631–1671), French chef and majordomo * Françoise Vatel (1937–2005), French actress * ''Vatel'' (film), a historical-drama film about François Vatel * , a hotel and tourism business school See also * Emer de Vattel Emer (Emmerich) de Vattel ( 25 April 171428 December 1767) was an international lawyer. He was born in Couvet in the Principality of Neuchâtel (now a canton part of Switzerland but part of Prussia at the time) in 1714 and died in 1767. He was l ...

François Vatel
François Vatel (; 1631 – 24 April 1671) was the majordomo (in French, ) of Nicolas Fouquet and prince Louis II de Bourbon-Condé. Vatel was born either in Switzerland or in Paris in 1625, 1631, or 1635. He is widely credited with creating ''crème Chantilly'' (Chantilly cream), a sweet, vanilla-flavoured whipped cream, but there is no contemporary documentation for this claim, and whipped, flavored cream was known at least a century earlier. Vatel served Louis XIV's superintendent Nicolas Fouquet in the inauguration at the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte that took place on 17 August 1661. Vatel was responsible for an extravagant banquet for 2,000 people hosted in honour of Louis XIV by the Grand Condé in April 1671 at the Château de Chantilly, where he died. According to a letter by Madame de Sévigné, Vatel was so distraught about the lateness of the seafood delivery and about other mishaps that he committed suicide by running himself through with his sword, and his body ...
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Françoise Vatel
Françoise Vatel (born Françoise Watel, 28 November 1937 – 24 October 2005) was a French actress. Vatel was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine. She began her film career at the age of 16 in Jean Gourguet's ''Les Premiers outrages'', and she worked with the director again in ''Les promesses dangeureuses'', ''La Putain sentimentale'' and ''Les frangines''. She worked then in the theatre, playing for several years in Claude Magnier's ''Oscar''. She appeared also in films of the Nouvelle Vague, in Luc Moullet's ''Brigitte et Brigitte'' and '' Les Contrebandières'' and Claude Chabrol's '' Les Cousins'' among others. She died in Soissons, aged 67. Selected filmography Film * 1955 : '' Les Premiers Outrages'' by Jean Gourguet : ''Brigitte Lambert, known as Bichette'' * 1956 : '' Les Promesses dangereuses'' by Jean Gourguet : ''Marie-Titi'' * 1958 : '' Un jour comme les autres'' by Paul Bordry * 1958 : '' Quelqu'un frappe à la porte'' by Alexandre Szombati : ''Elisabeth'' * 195 ...
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Vatel (film)
''Vatel'' is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Roland Joffé, written by Jeanne Labrune and translated by Tom Stoppard, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Julian Glover and Julian Sands. The film, based on the life of 17th-century French chef François Vatel, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. The film opened the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Plot The story takes place in 1671. In the context of the Franco-Dutch War, a financially struggling Louis, Grand Condé is visited by King Louis XIV for three days of festivities at the Château de Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, and spares no expense in order to impress the king. In charge of organizing the event is François Vatel, Master of Festivities and Pleasures in the prince's household. Vatel is a man of great honor and talent, but of low birth. As the great Condé is prepared to do anything in his quest for stature, the tasks assigned to V ...
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