Whitepages.cn.com edited from Cremerie de Paris,
a historic Telecom Hotspot in the French capital.
Back in 1671 were invented at our Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon (VB),
the Royal Postal Services for King Louis XIV.
Horses were carrying letters via hundreds of Post Relais of the Pajot & Rouillé
and the Thurn & Taxis postal families.
When a letter was really important,
Louis XIV liked to come by in person to give it to our postmaster Louis Leon Pajot.
The 3rd Bourbon King enjoyed watching post horses
arrive at a house which he already knew from his childhood.
The postmaster Anselm Franz von Thurn & Taxis (1681 - 1739)
based in Brussels and in Frankfurt
heleped to carry mail to China.
Map of China in 1650
1720s Carrying a letter from Paris to Beijing
over a distance of 10.736 km
was very complicated
involving many different Posthorses
that had to cross France,
the Habsburg Territories handled
by the Thurn and Taxis Post
postazl reads in Eastern Europe
and Asia
.
Letters from Paris to China all started at VB / Cremerie de Paris
the exact same location from where Whitepages.cn.com are edited today.
The VB mansion has never changed as if time had stopped.
Even the water fountain for the Post Horses
is still in place.
Sadly our avant-garde Telecommunications activities came to an en in 1738.
But somehow Spirit of
Telecomunications has stayed in the walls of our old VB Mension ...
just falling asleep for a long long time ...
1986 a 6 x great grandson of the above Postmaster
showed us the old VB mansion with all it's fascinating forgotten history.
The idea came up to wake up
Spirit of Telecommunications
- fallen asleep in the walls -
248 years before.
1987 It stated with a small avant-garde Sony Phone Boutique.
1995 opened an Internetcafe, the first in Paris.
1999 invention of the Phone Book of the World.
2004 Whitepages for France and Italy were added
2024 Whitepages for China.