Whitepages.fr
part of a Telecom Story
starting in 1290 / 1671
Whitepages.fr are edited from VB,
Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon / Cremerie de Paris
a Telecom Hotspot full of history and fairytales.

1290 Omodeo Tasso starts a courrier service from Cornello, Italian Alps.
1370 VB becomes the home of the Villeroys, advisors of the Bourbons, the Kings of France.
1646 VB childhood place for Louis XIV.
1671 VB seat of the Royal French Post,

1700s Louis Leon Pajot and Anselm Franz Thurn & Taxis (logo)
exchange Mail with their Post Horses.

Post Roads from VB in Paris to Milan and Venice in 1730.
At the end the 300 years journey from Postmasters to Whitepages

Louis XIV loves the efficiency of "La Poste VB".
1738 King Louis XV wants the revenues
and takes La Poste away from VB.
End of a Story
VB Telecom spirit falls asleep.


1867 Prussia nationalizes the Taxis Post.
1869 Cremerie de Paris reopens as a Milk Store.
1876 Alexander Bell invents the Phone creating a need for Phone Directories.
1881 Bell travels to Paris and visits VB.
1887 Construction of the Eiffel Tower,
"White Pages" and "Yellow Pages"
start to be used in France and in the US.

1920 Coco Chanel visits VB with Dmirti Romanov.
1921 Aimee de Heeren meets Alexander Bell.
1938 Aimee sent to Paris
as a WW2 Secret Service agent.
Coco Chanel shows her Cremerie de Paris / VB.
Joe Kennedy Jr helps her - they fall in Love.


Return of a Story

1986 Johannes Thurn & Taxis, 6 x great-grandson
of Anselm Franz Thurn & Taxis,
(the old Postmaster in the Whitepages logo)
shows the former VB Postal mansion to a student.

Thurn & Taxis beleives the energy from the past
is still there sleeping in the old VB walls ...
He gives the student a Thaler from his ancestors
- once earned carrying letters -
with the mission to wake up "Spirit of Telecommunications".

1987 A little Boutique opens next door,
as a repair shop for avant-garde Sony Phones.
Thurn & Taxis and Aimee follow the project.

A new adventure
right at the dawn of the internet

1991 Registration of the Two Letters VB.com
1993 Sony Phones and a little jewel left by Chanel
make it possible to reopen the legendary
Cremerie de Paris No1 in the old VB mansion.
1995 VB becomes the first Internet Cafe in France
and an American Callback Telecom agency.

Difficult to find Internet access
connects VB with fascinating US Tech pioneers,
travelling through Paris as tourists.
One was on the first flight to the Moon,
Jon Postel had invented internet domains.
Steve Jobs made Apple become part of the story
offering the cafe an iMac.


1999 Invention of the Phone Book of the World
2004 The VB Whitepages project starts with
Whitepages.fr and Whitepages.it
The same Aimee de Heeren loves the idea.
The first Whitepages are programmed
from the Internet Cafe during evening hours.


VB turns into
a Meeting Place of the
World's most famous Brands
2011 Cremerie de Paris becomes

2023 Cremerie de Paris / VB, home of Whitepages.fr
hosts a Chivas Pop Up Store with Dolly Cohen
Event organised by Chloe Escaffre (Chivas),
Thibault Couture (Pernod Ricard),
Victoire Guillaumet, Victor Daussy and Lucile Pateau (agence Mnstr)


Cremerie de Paris No1 as Pop Up Store Museum



Discover the Pop Up Stores
at Cremerie de Paris / VB.com,
former home of the Royal French Post,
home of the French Whitepages
@cremeriedeparisofficial