A variant of the game of croquet with hoops, billiards was originally played on the ground. For more than two centuries this game was played right across Europe, being played with wooden balls and a curved stick which in England was called the ballyard.

The first billiard table was constructed in 1469 for Louis XI. It was made of a slab of stone covered with an Elbeuf cloth. In France success was immediate; in 1630 there were 150 tables in Paris in the first academies. Louis XIV played billiards from his childhood.

Until the XVIIIth century women played billiards as much as men did. In 1790, the count reached 800 tables in the halls of the capital.

Under the Empire, Napoleon played billiards and showed himself to be a fervent follower of this discipline.

It was around 1850 that the present French billiard table appeared with 3 balls and the first professional world championship took place in 1873.

Made of oak up to the fist half of the XIXth century, the game table was replaced by stone or marble (until about 1900), which has now given place to slate, an irreplaceable material which has still not found its equal. Billiards still continues to experience a particularly strong vogue and is played across the whole world.

From 1860 Eugène Chevillotte became interested in an contributed to the development of the billiard table

It was around 1860 that Eugène Chevillotte created a travelling business. Very quickly his activities focussed on a few special articles for cafés, and started to develop rapidly, which forced him to give up his 4-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle and open a shop where he could display his goods.

From 1900, the Chevillotte company focussed its production especially on the billiard table, and bought the names and goodwill of some very old manufacturers. Fouquau - Lacal - Rabani and Marion. In 1924, Rémi Chevillotte opened a new shop in the centre of Orléans with a workshop.

Eugène, Rémi and later Guy Chevillotte, all good billiards players, never ceased, thanks to their love of the game, to make numerous modifications to improve the quality of the output and adapt the aesthetics to the taste of the various periods. Just afteer the war, from 1946, Guy Chevillotte became an active supporter of the sporting movement, to which he contributed tirelessly with assistance, aid and support.

The birth of 2 children in 1950 and 1951, Claude and Monique, allowed them, from 1970, with their wives, to look forward to a solid future.