Houbigant, the perfume house, dated 1775

Both facts are Wikidata’s (a second inception, 2010, is a later company). The house is the one the Osmothèque lists for Fougère Royale.

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Date

1775 (year)

documented

{"property":"P571","label":"inception","value":"+1775-01-01T00:00:00Z","precision":9,"precision_means":"year","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q48183 "]}

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

Wikidata also carries a second inception, 2010 (a later company of the name): the 1775 statement is the house’s

confidence B

Label

documented (a source states it)

house label

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

one of the four labels of the Reconstruction Lab (A §6.4), chosen from what the cited source itself says

confidence B

Kind

house

house classification

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house’s grouping of events for the timeline

confidence B

What happened

Houbigant, founded by Jean-François Houbigant, is dated to 1775 by Wikidata.

documented

{"property":"P112","label":"founded by","value":"Q6169258","value_label":"Jean-François Houbigant","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q8447 "]}

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

confidence B

Place

not on record

not on record

no place on record for this event

People

• Jean-François Houbigant (founder)
  documented

  {"property":"P112","label":"founded by","value":"Q6169258","value_label":"Jean-François Houbigant","rank":"normal","references":1,"reference_values":["P143:Q8447 "]}

  WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records · read 2026-09-30

  confidence B

Where the sources disagree

• Wikidata has two inception dates for Houbigant, 1775 and 2010; the second belongs to a later company of the name. (WD-1)

Sources

1. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), the items listed in the house’s records; extracts filed in the house’s records, read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata structured data); the extracts are filed

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this record as data: /data/event/house-houbigant-1775.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B