Espagnole sauce new sauce was an instant success, and was gratefully named in honor of its creators." In "Kettner's Book of the Table", published in 1877, an entirely different explanation is given: The name "Kettner" in the title refers to Auguste Kettner, former chef to Napoleon III, who emigrated to England and in 1867 opened a restaurant in Soho—"Kettner's"—one of the oldest restaurants in London. Espagnole sauce Espagnole sauce () is a basic brown sauce, and is one of Auguste Escoffier's five mother sauces of classic French cooking. This sauce was already compiled in different Spanish cooking handbooks of the late 19th
La Fête espagnole in Nice; Louis Nalpas agreed to back the production as long as it was shot there, though some additional material was filmed in the Basque border town of Hondarribia. For the duration of the shooting, which concluded in November, Delluc was only seen intermittently on the set. He was, however, fully involved in editing the film with Dulac. It was screened for critics on March 17, 1920, and went into release either March 31 or May 7, 1920. "La Fête espagnole" was widely praised by critics as something vital and new in French cinema, though—as observed by Tami Williams—with the