Book "Le Savon de Marseille" by Patrick Boulanger

Marseille soap has undergone an astonishing evolution over the centuries. After obscure beginnings in the cauldrons of modest medieval workshops, it gave birth to the most powerful industry in France's largest port.

Marseille soap becomes an essential household product. However, at the end of the Second World War, its market was attacked by washing powders and synthetic detergents.

Nowadays, we are rediscovering the virtues of Marseille soap. Indeed, its too simple appearance concealed its qualities.

Patrick Boulanger took pleasure in resurrecting the past, but also the present of this exceptional product.

The iconography helps to reveal many forgotten aspects of its manufacturing and marketing, outdated visions which will delight many readers.

Marseille soap, this too modest cube born on the shores of the Mediterranean, deserved a book dedicated to it.