page_title: Louis de Bechamel
section_title: Béchamel sauce
hierarchical_section_title: Louis de Bechamel / Béchamel sauce
caption_attribution_description: English: Brocololi and Bechamel
context_page_description: Louis de Béchamel, marquis de Nointel was a French financier and patron of the arts.
context_section_description: The white sauce called béchamel sauce (Fr. sauce béchamel) acquired its name from him for he perfected an older sauce made from cream originally made by François Pierre de la Varenne (1615–1678), the cook of the marquis d'Uxelles. The sauce was dedicated to Béchameil to flatter him, at which the Duke of Escars commented: 
  That fellow Béchameil has all the luck! I was serving breast of chicken à la crème more than 20 years before he was born, but I have never had the chance of giving my name to even the most modest sauce.
   
  (« Est-il heureux, ce petit Béchameil ! J’avais fait servir des émincés de blancs de volaille à la crème plus de vingt ans avant qu’il fût au monde et, voyez, pourtant je n’ai jamais eu le bonheur de pouvoir donner mon nom à la plus petite sauce! »)
caption: Béchamel and broccoli
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