André Denet (1913–2001) was the head of Cartier Paris's sales team in the post-war years. He had been trained by his predecessor Paul Muffat, a fifty-year veteran of the firm, and took over the Paris floor at 13 Rue de la Paix after Muffat's 1953 retirement, leading the team into the 1960s alongside the salesmen Thil and Gaube.
His most prominent clients were Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, and the King of Morocco. He was as likely to visit them at home as receive them at the rue de la Paix, and he and his wife were occasional guests on the King's holidays, a measure of how far the salesman-client relationship had travelled from the firm's earliest days. The stories of his career, including the afternoon Hutton and the Duchess of Windsor both expected his attention at the same time, are in The Cartiers, ch. 10.
Sources
- Francesca Cartier Brickell, The Cartiers (Ballantine Books, 2019), pp. 484–485, 510, footnote p. 585
- Hans Nadelhoffer, Cartier: Jewelers Extraordinary (Thames and Hudson, 1984; revised 2007)
