Stand de Friteries "Becuwe" au Salon des appareils ménagers en 1923
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100 years of the Salon des arts ménagers
On October 18, 1923, the 1st Salon des appareils ménagers was held at the Champ-de-Mars in Paris. It was subsequently renamed the "Salon des arts ménagers" in 1926 and moved to the Grand Palais.
The show, which was a success from its very first year, was created on the initiative of Jules-Louis Breton, the first director of the Office national des recherches scientifiques et industrielles et des inventions (ONRSII). During this event organized with the aim of encouraging the collaboration between the scientific and industrial circles, many inventions resulting from the ONRSII then the CNRS are exposed and rewarded. The exhibition was organized every year until 1960 at the Grand Palais, then from 1961 onwards in the premises of the Centre national des industries et des techniques (Cnit) at La Défense, where the last one took place in 1983. The Breton family ran the show for over fifty years.
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