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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 863663, member: 50&quot;]There is some history of different factories on this site (in French).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.musee-ceramique-desvres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Histoire-des-faienceries-locales-1.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.musee-ceramique-desvres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Histoire-des-faienceries-locales-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.musee-ceramique-desvres.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Histoire-des-faienceries-locales-1.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the Google translation on their info of Fourmaintraux-Courquin if that is the correct attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>OF FOURMAINTRAUX-COURQUIN (1837-1909) / 3</p><p>e</p><p>generation AT LA S.A. DESVRES</p><p>Charles-François Fourmaintraux-Courquin is the eldest of the Fourmaintraux-Hornoy family.</p><p>Representing his father, he opened in 1863 his own tile factory, rue de la Belle Croix. In</p><p>1872, under the influence of his wife, Célina Courquin, he turns to artistic earthenware and copy</p><p>old models from the great historic centers of Rouen, Delft, Nevers, Moustiers ...</p><p>production peaks between 1878 and 1886. Fourmaintraux-Courquin, which also sells</p><p>cement, provides tiles to large companies, such as railway companies, as well as</p><p>factories, hospitals and public administrations. His tiles are exported to Africa from</p><p>North and South America. The reputation of his pottery, regularly rewarded during</p><p>exhibitions, will benefit all the factories in the city. From the end of the 19th</p><p>century, the</p><p>Desvres label is identified as a guarantee of quality.</p><p>From 1900, under the direction of the son Charles Fourmaintraux-Houzel, the company takes a new</p><p>boom. In a wise industrialist, Charles mechanises the manufacture of tiles and develops ceramics</p><p>architecture. In 1912, he associated with the Lilleois Henri Gand who died three years later of injuries of</p><p>war. Maurice Delassus succeeds him in 1919. The collaboration of the two families knows two other</p><p>generations: Charles Fourmaintraux (son) and Jean Delassus in the second third of the 20th</p><p>century;</p><p>Christian Fourmaintraux and Ghislain Delassus in the last.</p><p>Become Desvres Company in 1965, the factory is enriched nine years later a new site of</p><p>tiling production at Longfossé, complementary to the first one then dedicated to the preparation of</p><p>pasta and the manufacture of processing products (glues, mortars). The 1980s mark</p><p>a turning point in the history of society: in 1985, the Fourmaintraux and Delassus families withdrew</p><p>capital; in 1997, the company was acquired by the Belgian group Koramic; in 2000, she moved to</p><p>COFRAC group. The year 2010 marks the end of production at Longfossé. Still active, the</p><p>Belle-Croix site only manufactures since the implementation products.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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