Espagnole sauce 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 century, and Escoffier popularized the recipe, which is still followed today. Espagnole has a strong taste, and is rarely used directly on food. As a mother sauce, it serves as the starting point for many derivatives, such as sauce africaine, sauce bigarade, sauce bourguignonne, sauce aux champignons, sauce charcutière, sauce chasseur, sauce chevreuil, and demi-glace. Hundreds of other derivatives are in the classical
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