Everyone knows Cartier jewelry, but not everyone knows the origin of the jaguar and the love story behind it. It not only created Cartier's highlight moment, but also caused two of the three brothers of the Cartier family to die one after another, which was also the main reason for the decline of the Cartier family.
In 1847, Louis asked Suva Cartier to create the Cartier brand, and by 1853, during the reign of Emperor Napoleon, due to royal appreciation, it quickly became popular and swept the entire Parisian aristocracy. After three generations of hard work, Cartier became a sought-after jewelry giant in Paris at the time.
In 1902, the British Crown Prince of Wales praised Cartier as "the jeweler of the emperor, the emperor of the jewelers". Cartier received not only a certificate of commission from the British royal family, but also dozens of royal families such as Spain and Monaco. For a time, the scenery is infinite.
On the eve of World War I, at a dinner party for the upper class, Louis Cartier, the third generation head of Cartier, met Jeanne Toussaint, who was later known as the "Cheetah Goddess".
At that time, Jenny was only a little girl in her early 20s, and in the face of the jewelry giant, she actually said unimpressedly: "Mr. Joseph, when will Cartier's jewelry break the old routine?"
Everyone was stunned, and Joseph was even more embarrassed. He had to admit that Cartier at this time did fall into a creative bottleneck.
When he learned that Jenny was not a professional designer, Joseph invited Jenny to participate in the design competition being held in Cartier with a mischievous revenge, hoping to show her ugliness.
However, something unexpected happened, Jenny actually won the championship in one fell swoop, which shocked Joseph for a long time.
This is how Jenny entered Cartier. With a lively personality, she brought unprecedented vitality and inspiration to Cartier. In order to obtain a more intuitive artistic aesthetic, Jenny encouraged Joseph to go with her to the jungle of the Americas.
That season, the bluegrass of the American jungle was in full bloom, and they greedily enjoyed the beauty in front of them. Unbeknownst to him, danger is slowly approaching.
A jaguar silently approached Joseph. At this time, Jenny discovered this terrible situation. She yelled at Joseph to run. Joseph turned his head to realize the danger, and the remaining trace of sanity in his fright made him understand that he could not run away from the jaguar at this time.
He immediately pointed the camera in his hand at the jaguar, "clicked" the ground, and the flash scared the jaguar. Jenny also quickly took off her coat and lit it with a lighter, then threw it at the jaguar. Frightened by the flames, the jaguar turned and fled into the jungle.
The frightened two immediately ran to the jeep more than ten meters away. After this disaster, the long-suppressed emotions of the two gushed out and fell in love.
In 1920, Joseph appointed Jenny as artistic director of Cartier's jewelry kingdom. Joseph's two younger brothers, Jacques and Pierre, thought his brother was crazy. They told the old father about Joseph and Jenny's affair. The old father was furious.
He approached Jenny and offered two choices: either leave Cartier or stay in Cartier to continue as director, but leave Joseph. Jenny chose the latter. She told Joseph that she would be satisfied as long as she could see him every day.
In 1936, King Edward VIII, who had been on the throne for less than a year, resolutely announced his abdication in order to marry Mrs. Simpson, a twice-divorced American poor woman.
In order to express his love, he became the Duke of Windsor, and he entrusted the task of jewelry design to the Cartier company. Jenny thought of her hopeless feelings with Joseph and decided to interpret this deep love with a new design.
She reminisced about every detail of the American jungle, incorporated all the heat into the drawings, and then designed a series of jewelry such as the "Cheetah" brooch, the "BIB" necklace, the "Tiger" long-handled glasses and the "duck head" brooch. Among them, the "cheetah" brooch made the Duchess of Windsor love and has since become a classic symbol of Cartier.
Jenny also became famous and was known as the "jaguar-like woman".
Joseph's wife also finally learned of the agreement between the Cartier family and Jenny, and she immediately warned that if Jenny remained with the company, she would make the scandal between the Cartier heir and the artistic director public. Not being embarrassed by Joseph, Jenny felt like leaving.
In the summer of 1942, Jenny and Joseph came to the Seine River, looking at the stars shining in the night sky, Joseph took out a delicate pear-shaped diamond ring and told Jenny that he felt that he felt to give up everything in the Cartier family and spend the rest of his life with the woman he loved.
Jenny, who originally planned to say goodbye, couldn't stop crying in the face of such an affectionate confession. But she never expected that this ring was not a promise in this life, but a promise in the next life.
On the way home, Jenny's car was in a car accident, and Joseph was too seriously injured to wake up. Jenny was in a coma for a whole week before she woke up. Upon learning of Joseph's death, Jenny was in pain.
A few months later, Jacques died suddenly in London. It is said that because he could not withstand the death of his brother Joseph, he died of excessive drinking day and night.
The successive accidents made the Cartier family believe that Jenny was an unknown person. At this time, Pierre, the only heir of the Cartier family, stood up and told Jenny: "I am not forgiving you, I am just giving you the opportunity to forgive yourself".
After 30 years without Joseph, Jenny worked hard to complete his unfinished business for Joseph.
In 1964, Pierre called Jenny to New York and told a shocking secret himself: it turned out that the car accident that year was not an accident.
At that time, Joseph refused to leave Jenny, so Jacques did something in Jenny's car, and they wanted Jenny to disappear. Unexpectedly, Joseph got into Jenny's car.
After Joseph's death, Jacques felt guilty, drank all day long, and died soon after.
For Cartier's reputation, Pierre was tight-lipped over the years. Now, in his twilight years, Pierre can't bear Jenny to spend the rest of her life in regret, and finally tells the truth of the matter.
Perhaps, for Jenny, it doesn't matter what the truth is. As long as the bluegrass of the American jungle is still luxuriant, her Joseph will live forever.
