Royer Hutin Absinthe Pyrogene #1

Ceramic advertising match striker for the Royer-Hutin distillery

circa 1900

Absinthe Royer-Hutin (or Royer-Hutin) was an absinthe brand produced by a distiller in Dijon (Côte-d’Or), active before the 1915 ban.

The Royer-Hutin firm produced absinthe as well as other spirits and liqueurs. Like many provincial distillers during the Belle Époque, it widely distributed advertising items, notably match strikers (earthenware match holders) that still bear its name today.

One of these match strikers is in fact illustrated on the French Wikipedia page dedicated to absinthe, with the caption “Advertising match striker for Absinthe Royer-Hutin, before 1915.”

The rest of the story

After the Second World War, the company was acquired (along with other Dijon distillers, including Frédéric Mugnier) by Jean Laroche, who consolidated the operations under the L’Héritier-Guyot firm (notably a specialist in Dijon crème de cassis).

As with most absinthe brands of that era, production ceased with the 1915 ban and was not revived under this name.

It is therefore a regional Dijon brand typical of the golden age of absinthe, best known today thanks to the advertising objects that have survived.