The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
By LOUIS A. SPRINGER.

q lATf years OF strenuous activ-
~ ity Is a long span Of life, but
when these years represent a
fine measure of success, happiness in
marriage. the respect OF a multitude
Of friends and prosperity and honor in
M Henri Mouquin, we'll worthy OF ap-
preciative observance. This Is M
Mouquin's good fortune, good for
tune which he asks all his old patrons
his old and faithful employees and
the oldest and truest of the friends Of
himself and wife to share by joining
with him in the celebration which lie
announces in this invitation;
"1S59-19le.
MIR. and Mrs. Mouquin request the
pleasure OF Mr.. IS company at
the sixtieth anniversary of their mar
riage on Wednesday. the twenty-third
Of April. from four to seven o'clock,
at one hundred and forty-nine Fulton
street in the city OF New York"
The restaurant, which all New York
knows as MouGuin's, had been well
started on its way to prosperity when
Mile. Marie Grandjean came from the
Swiss canton OF Naud and took the
name of Mouquin and an active part
nership, which she has always main
tanned to this day, in the affairs Of
home and business of the Mouquins.
The restaurant had begun to grow. 1t
had left its basement in Nassau street,
was in more commodious quarters on
Fulton street and the proprietor was
even then dreaming of extending it
into the present home.
Pslice Kept Patrons in Line.
In fact 1t was necessary for the res
taurant to grow, for 1t had acquired
such a clientele that the proprietor
had been compelled to appeal to the
captain of the nearby police station
to keep the queue that came to the
door at every noon hour in order
1T was custom that had to be
observed at many Paris restaurants
In those days" explained NJ. Mouquln
In telling OF this phase OF his business
growth and Of his early days in New
York.
To tell how 1t was that Henri Mou-
quin came to New York in 1854 is to
80 back into the history OF the Mou-
Quin family, a family that now, with
Louis and Henri, Jr, and Louiss son,
can claim six generations OF hotel or
restaurant proprietors. The elder
Henri's father and also his grandfather
ran hotels in Switzerland, his father
having the principal hotel. and a we'll
known one II was in Its day. to Swiss
travellers at the town Of Aubonne,
near the Lake OF Geneva That was
before the time Of railroads, and young
Henri, husky boy with a fondness for
the outdoors, used to meet the dill
gences at the lake landing or on their
way from Geneva to Lausanne or fur
ther up the lake and make hiuselr as
useful as an obliging. good natured
Swiss boy could to the passengers.
1t was In this way that he met a
stranger who had a villa on the lake
shore. Most Of the people Of the
neighborhood did not know, and per-
haps with their inclination for not
prying into other peoples affairs did
not care to know. ,Yho was this digni-
fed, military looking man who seemed
to be carrying a burden of worries on
his shoulders to be dumped into the
lake at the first opportunity. Henri,
however, knew that the stranger was
Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who
became Napoleon ILL.,, Emperor Of
France. He knew, too, that the Prince
had stolen away from a pulling and
perplexing state OF affairs OF which
he was more or less the centre in
order to rest and to live a simple and
easy existence in this plain little villa.
y.noI.on IIr,. H.nu,... p.
ne would ask me To SIT at the table
WIN MN III the garden as he slipped
MS WINE ana looked out over the blue
waters OF tne laAe' Ihen he would
pour me out crop OF wine Tor my
ser ana ne "ouio ask me ABOUT the
chaihois IN tne hisn mountains down
at inc heauWaters OF the Hhone'
Mhe'e 'he eoei"eiSs grew, ana what
was gong 10 90 when became
man inose must nave been mis- nap
piest Gays, SAID M Mouquln rerlec-
.veiy' win the gentlans blooming at