The famous watchmaking House inspires the greatest writers who heaps praise on the precious timepieces. In this way, Honoré de Balzac quotes Breguet in several of its book as well as Alexandre Dumas in his masterpiece « The Count of Monte Cristo ». On an international level, Alexandre Pushkin, the most famous Russian writer or William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist and satirist, enthusiastically to put the name of Breguet in their works.
"Rodolphe found Mademoiselle Laure at the trysting place. Good, said he, for punctuality she is a feminine Breguet."
Henry Murger The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter (the work that inspired Puccini for his opera “La Bohème"), 1848
Born in Paris, the French writer Henri Murger (1822-1861) published Les Scènes de la vie de bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life) in 1848. Its immediate success let him to adapt it for the stage in 1851 and it was later to inspire Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera, La Bohème, in 1896.
