 was invented at the Cremerie de Paris N°1 Telecom Hotspot since 1671 1671-1738 Royal French Postal Services by Pajot & Rouile with help of Thurn & Taxis 1987 - 2001 Sony Phones 1993 - 2005 Cybercafe since 1999 home of PBof.com Phone Book of the World |
Francesco Tasso / Franz Taxis 1490
181 years before Cremerie de Paris
became a Telecom Hotspot
invention of the postal service
181 years before the Hôtel de Villeroy & Bourbon (home of the Phone Book of the World)
became the Postal Company of the Pajot & Rouillé family
 Franz von Taxis / Francesco de Tasso (1459 - 1517) is considered to be the founder of the European Postal system. The official foundation date is 1490.   Born in Italy in a small village, Camerata Cornello near Bergamo 60 km north of Milan he worked with his brother Janetto (1450 - 1518) and his nephew Johann Baptista (1470 - 1541) 
A museum has been created in the still existing village, Museo dei Tasso For the Holy Roman Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1459 - 1519) Taxis organised a horse transport system from Innsbruck to Brussels. Horses were exchanged every 28 km, mail from Innsbruck to Brussels took 5 and 1/2 days. 1516 Brussels becomes the seat of the young organisation. Mail from Brussels to Blois 60 hours from Brussels to Rome 250 hours Franz von Taxis only child Augustin de Taxis entered the church, The son of his brother Jeanetto, Johann Baptista became his successor in the postal service. |
 Johannes 11th Prince of Thurn & Taxis (1926 - 1990) knew about the Cremerie from his grandfather Albert. Albert was always telling his young grandchildren Johannes, Anselm, Gabriel and Mathilde about the fascinating postal adventures of their ancestors. The picture was taken around 1936.  1986 Johannes came to Paris during the fashion week. The editor of this article, at the time a young student was making some extra money working in fashion shows. This is how he happened to meet the great great great great great great grandson of the old postmasters. The fashion show meeting resulted in a lunch invitation at the Ritz. Johannes had met wild people like Soraya of Iran or Marilyn Monroe but his most captivating stories were the ones in reation to his ancestor's adventures operating Postal services ... Nobody knew such amazing stories, even though they sounded almost unbeleivable ... for a student used to La Poste beeing a State owned Monopoly.  Sometimes Johannes said, "you know when the horses of my great great grandfather were carrying letters, they were faster and more reliable than today ..." 1986 May in Paris again Thurn & Taxis showed the student a fascinating building, The Hôtel de Villeroy Bourbon, the place where his ancestors Anselm Franz and Alexander Ferdinand had been 300 years earlier. It was one of the Telecom hotspots of the 17th and 18th century and the only still exisiting major Telecom building completely unchanged, even the water fountains for the post horses are still there. Thurn & Taxis was a little astonished the young student also knew about the building, but what the student knew were stories from Russia and had nothing to do with Telecom ...  50 meters away from the old postal building was a little Boutique with a sign "for sale" ... Thurn & Taxis called the number on the sign and told the young student: "The price of this Boutique is not even half of what my wife spends on a cocktail dress. I enjoy that the Telecom adventures of my ancestors interest you so much. I should give you a few thalers we received for our Thurn & Taxis Post and you start a new Telecom business. Our Thurn & Taxis buildings from Brussels and Francfort have been destroyed but in Paris everything is still there. There is so much history and so much energy from the past ... " "Telecom has been blocked by State monopolies, one of these day these monopolies will fall you will see the business my family once has invented has a lot of future ... At age 20 you have a lot of energy and people will be surprised that you are still so young this will help you ... Find an idea I will enjoy to follow the adventure ... " 1986 July the student had the key of the little Boutique in the heart of Paris 50 m from the old Postal Building ... This was like jumping into water ... Used to live in a chambre de bonne and owning a bicycle having a Boutique in the heart of the city was quite something ... The Telecom project was so captivating, the student was no longer interested in studying ... The Boutique took a bit of time to open. An idea needed to be found and the place needed to be renovated ...  Well when you are 20 and you open a Boutique in the center of Paris a lot of adventures are waiting for you .... |
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