Jean Mantelet (1900–19 January 1991) was a French inventor and industrialist who founded the kitchen appliance company Moulinex.
[1] He studied at HEC Paris and in 1922 Jean Mantelet establishes himself as a manufacturer of hand pumps and agricultural sprayers.
[2] In 1932, Mantelet invents prize-winning[3] the Moulin-Légumes, a hand-crank food mill for mashing and puréeing vegetables.
His mother, working, placed him at the age of 12 in an apprenticeship at a hosiery shop in the rue de Rivoli where he learned the basics of commerce and accounting.
However the proprietor died in 1919 and Jean Mantelet was forced to join his father at his small hardware store.