Talk:Lebon Patisserie & Café

CeeGee 12:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Year of founding
The date of 1810 seems implausible if Lebon died in 1937. The Passage Oriental was created in the 1840s and snippets in Turkish books such as this indicate that the patisserie was founded there in 1850.

I have rewritten the lead to make it less specific. Someone fluent in Turkish is really needed to get to the bottom of this. The original author was User:CeeGee, who may like to comment.

Andrew🐉(talk) 11:20, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I sagree that there is a confusion in the year of establishment. I can only reflect what the sources say. One of the latest owners told that the founding year must hace been 1810, and now it is accepted as such. CeeGee 13:07, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * The recent owners do not seem reliable because there was no continuity back to the original business, as I understand it, and the story of the box is weak evidence. Such stories tend to grow in the telling and so we require confirmation from earlier sources.  We should continue to review those sources.
 * Note also that the current frontage had a date of 1886 but that has been scrubbed out in our current photo. Who vandalised that year and why?
 * Andrew🐉(talk) 18:14, 18 November 2022 (UTC)