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As early as the Middle Ages an established place of pilgrimage in Eastern France was the monastery of abbot Saint Claudius. In medieval iconography Saint Claudius was the patron saint of toymakers. The town that grew servicing the pilgrims was Saint-Claude. The pilgrims arrived from all over the Christian world, and the towns people made mementos for sale and lived off business from the pilgrims. The town also produced snuff and pipe stems made of boxwood, bone, horn and amber which they sold to Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. In time Saint-Claude became a thriving centre of wooden souvenirs, gem-setting, and luxuriously-carved pipe stems. According to local legend a Saint-Claude turner named David is credited with the making the first briar pipe. The souvenir industry of Saint-Claude supplied all the manufacturing preconditions for the making of the briar pipe. The firm of Jeantet as early as 1807 was making and selling German type porcelain pipes, Ulm-type wood pipes and meerschaums from local wood and horn. The contemporary technology determined the shape of the pipes, and they were typically composed of wood-turned parts. Local records indicate that in 1841 there were three pipe-making firms employing twenty workers. 1854 is the year ascribed to the beginning of pipes made from briar.<ref>Ferenc Levárdy: Our Pipe-Smoking Forebears, Velburg: Osskó (Self-published) 1994</ref> | As early as the Middle Ages an established place of pilgrimage in Eastern France was the monastery of abbot Saint Claudius. In medieval iconography Saint Claudius was the patron saint of toymakers. The town that grew servicing the pilgrims was Saint-Claude. The pilgrims arrived from all over the Christian world, and the towns people made mementos for sale and lived off business from the pilgrims. The town also produced snuff and pipe stems made of boxwood, bone, horn and amber which they sold to Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. In time Saint-Claude became a thriving centre of wooden souvenirs, gem-setting, and luxuriously-carved pipe stems. According to local legend a Saint-Claude turner named David is credited with the making the first briar pipe. The souvenir industry of Saint-Claude supplied all the manufacturing preconditions for the making of the briar pipe. The firm of Jeantet as early as 1807 was making and selling German type porcelain pipes, Ulm-type wood pipes and meerschaums from local wood and horn. The contemporary technology determined the shape of the pipes, and they were typically composed of wood-turned parts. Local records indicate that in 1841 there were three pipe-making firms employing twenty workers. 1854 is the year ascribed to the beginning of pipes made from briar.<ref>Ferenc Levárdy: Our Pipe-Smoking Forebears, Velburg: Osskó (Self-published) 1994</ref> | ||
== Confrérie des maitres-pipiers == | |||
[[Image:Musée_Pipe_Diamant_Jura_036.jpg|thumb|Chapter room of the Pipe and Diamond Museum of Saint-Claude]] | |||
The Confrérie des maitres-pipiers (brotherhood of the master pipe makers) is a registered association with the goal to be an “Ambassador of the important pipe industry of Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura”. It was created in 1966 at the instigation of [[Edgar Faure]] who was then elected “Premier Fumeur de pipe de l'année” (First Pipe Smoker of the Year). Two meetings are held in the Chapter room of the Pipe and Diamond Museum of Saint-Claude each year. One of them elects the “Premier Fumeur de pipe de l'année” chosen by his peers for his passion for pipes. The chosen one receives as a distinction a pipe in his effigy made by the master pipe maker [[Paul Lanier]] (best worker in France 1991 for pipe sculpture). Among more than 1000 initiates you will find: Jean Richard, Jacques Faizant, Bernard Blier, Michel Drucker, Jean Poiret, Nino Ferrer, Jacques Audiard, Dominique Strauss-Kahn etc. The brotherhood was chaired until April 2018 by [[Michel Waille]].<ref>https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confr%C3%A9rie_des_ma%C3%AEtres-pipiers</ref> | |||
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File:1855-St.ClaudeBriar-Parts.jpg|Saint-Claude briar pipe parts c.1855, courtesy [http://www.racineandlaramie.com/ Racine & Laramie Tobacconist] | File:1855-St.ClaudeBriar-Parts.jpg|Saint-Claude briar pipe parts c.1855, courtesy [http://www.racineandlaramie.com/ Racine & Laramie Tobacconist] | ||
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* [http://lapipedesaintclaude.com http://lapipedesaintclaude.com] | |||
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