Soon going into partnership with Percy Barton, he originated Betjeman and Barton. But even if they had introduced a certain English art of tea in Paris, the two gentlemen had to do with the inevitable influence of French taste.

This is how that right balance developped between an English purist, refined and a bit haughty notion about tea, and the freedom of French taste, that curiosity about flavours which is not exempt from fantasy.

   Beneath the elegant and somewhat majestic sign in Boulevard Malesherbes, the red and green caddies stored the jewels collected by the two merchants whose success was such that they began to export their tea... towards England!