If La Mère Poulard never left her cuisine or Mont-Saint-Michel, she was still curious about the world and she traveled in her own way by welcoming guests from all over the world. She liked to keep the memory of each guest through the photos executed and dedications collected in her book.
The Mère Poulard Inn has maintained this tradition until today and it is a real piece of history that is revealed as well.
We discover that King Edward VII and the royal family of England, visited La Mère Poulard in the early twentieth century, have greatly contributed to its fame.
President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt and the first French Minister Georges Clemenceau - hero of the First World War, a great friend of La Mere Poulard and big fan of her recipes - also contributed to this growing reputation. They would certainly have been surprised that in 1923 the young Chou En-lai take pension before returning to China where, twenty-five years later, he participated with his traveling companion Mao Tsé-toung to the Chinese revolution.
In a few years, the future Prime Minister Chinese could have met another revolutionary, fallen one, Trotsky, who began his exile and the best way possible and which could, in turn, cross members of large families finance and industry, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, the faithful of La Mère Poulard throughout the twentieth century.
Among the royals who frequented her inn, La Mère Poulard had a special affection for the Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan's imperial family, and for many Russian princes and princesses in exile who frequented assiduously her house.
No doubt that La Mère Poulard would have appreciated that the centenary of the creation of her hotel, they celebrate the Entente Cordiale between the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand, came to discuss about problems of world around a good table.
In the same way, she would have been proud to learn that her Inn was used as headquarters during the invasion of 1944 and that in these difficult times as in the year of commemoration that followed, General Patton, General Bradley and Marshal Montgomery had enjoyed her table as Winston Churchill, a great statesman and great epicurean. Ernest Hemingway meanwhile strongly docked to the table of La Mere Poulard for several days to describe the war exploits. He certainly noticed the comment made some years earlier by the French singer Maurice Chevalier and describing his stay : "Location superb - good crust - Good service - Patrons lovely - I will comming back! " Because the Mont-Saint-Michel and La Mère Poulard like the artists, like the painter Foujita who drew small cat, Bernard Buffet a stove and more surprisingly, the American actor Charlton Heston who crunched with extraordinary speed and talent Mont-Saint-Michel.
The list of artists in love with La Mère Poulard is long and we include some in the style of a poem to Prévert, also a great lover of the table La Mere Poulard : Claude Monet, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Pagnol, Andre Malraux, Françoise Sagan, Jean Gabin, Rita Hayworth, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Woody Allen, Glenn Gloss, Juliette Binoche, Arthur Rubinstein, Jean-Michel Jarre, Charles Aznavour, Christian Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent ...
Finally, we will not forget the exceptional men, that La Mère Poulard loved, like Charles Lindbergh after his transatlantic crossing or Alan Shephard who went to the stars before returning to sit down at La Mère Poulard.
And of course we will leave the conclusion to the pope of French cuisine, Paul Bocuse, who said "The Mere Poulard, it is France."
