Album history

Founded in 1865, my family is dedicated to MORILLON's ongoing development.

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Laurent MORILLON

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The second Théodore organized the family business.
With his young brothers, Jean-Baptiste, Arthur and Joseph, Théodore learned all of his trade in the shade of his father.
He became the real head of the company after the First World War, as can be seen in his diary, a superb handwritten document in which he noted down every important event, business or family.
He had to juggle between the demands of his customers, helping both his ageing father and his uncle Marcel, invalided out of the Great War.
With his wife, Marie-Thérèse, he also looked after the education of their 6 children, of whom the firstborn, born in 1900, was called Théodore. Thus for some time 3 generations of Théos lived together in the company.
Uncle Joseph was an enthusiastic electrician and never missed an opportunity to demonstrate his skills in the main place of Andrezé so as to prepare the villagers for the coming inventions. Regrettably, in 1904 he died of tuberculosis at the age of 27.
Whilst continuing his milling work, thanks among other things to the purchase of a fluter, Théo and Jean-Baptiste played an active part in the development of agricultural machinery, giving the village the first threshing machines, followed by the first tractors.
Théodore died in 1928, only three years after his father. He left the company in the hands of his eldest son, helped by his two uncles. Marie-Thérèse, now a widow, was careful to maintain the relationship between her brothers-in-law and her sons, who all worked in the company. Her influence in sustaining the values inspired by her husband proved decisive.