French cuisine harvests occurred. Marie-Antoine Carême was born in 1784, five years before the Revolution. He spent his younger years working at a "pâtisserie" until he was discovered by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who would later cook for Napoleon Bonaparte. Prior to his employment with Talleyrand, Carême had become known for his "pièces montées", which were extravagant constructions of pastry and sugar architecture. More important to Carême's career was his contribution to the refinement of French cuisine. The basis for his style of cooking was his sauces, which he named mother sauces. Often referred to as fonds, meaning "foundations", these base sauces,
La Fête espagnole single line of text, and a gradual acceleration in the pace of these shots is observed as the film progresses. Henri Langlois commented that "La Fête espagnole" was "the key film of French film history: as important as Eisenstein's "Strike"." Despite its influence on other filmmakers and favorable critical appraisal, the moviegoing public ignored the film, and it was banned in Portugal. Delluc's screenplay was one of three published under the title "Drames du Cinema" in 1923. Only 8 minutes of "La Fête espagnole", which originally ran 67 minutes, have survived. According to Williams, this consists of three or four