ABOUT
RAPHAËL PATHÉ HÉRITAGE

A Legacy Reawakened

Raphaël Pathé Héritage is a cultural initiative founded by Raphaël Pathé, direct descendant of Jacques Pathé, co-founder of the legendary Pathé Frères cinema company (1896). The association honors and reinterprets the spirit of early cinema through immersive events, sound-driven storytelling, symbolic rituals, and future-facing performances.

This is not about nostalgia. It is about transmission, resonance, and revival — staging legacy as living art.

From Athens to Creation

The project was born from a conversation in Athens between Raphaël and Muriel Hericher, Corsican entrepreneur, gourmet artisan, and cultural enthusiast. Sharing a passion for cinema, music, and French heritage, they imagined a new kind of stage — blending artistic formats with symbolic storytelling.

Muriel became Founding Treasurer, and with Raphaël as Artistic Director, they officially formed the association in 2025 under French law (Loi 1901), with a mission to reawaken the cinematic spirit through elegance and innovation.

A Seat with Meaning — Roissy-en-Brie

In 1913, Charles Pathé — Raphaël’s great-uncle — acquired a château in Roissy-en-Brie, where he hosted film screenings, musical events, and elegant gatherings. The town was one of the first in the region to receive electric lighting and cinematic projection, thanks to Charles.

Today, the château houses the town hall of Roissy-en-Brie. In 2025, Raphaël contacted Mayor François Bouchart, who welcomed the idea of linking the site’s past to a new vision. The association was formally registered at:

2 Place Charles Pathé, 77680 Roissy-en-Brie
A symbolic return to where cinema, innovation, and family legacy once converged.

Our Purpose

• To stage immersive productions that honor and reimagine cinema’s origins

• To blend sound, image, performance, and new technology in cultural storytelling

• To bring the Pathé legacy to life through events, rituals, and symbolic creation

• To connect heritage to future-facing artistic forms, always with elegance and intention

The Pathé Legacy

In 1896, Charles, Jacques, Émile, and Théophile Pathé founded Pathé Frères, a French company that would revolutionize film, news, sound, and global media. They invented the first film reels, international distribution systems, and cinema as a cultural form.

Raphaël Pathé is the direct descendant of Jacques Pathé. Through this association, he builds not a museum — but a new platform to share, remix, and re-stage that legacy for today’s world.

Our Symbol – The Red Macaw

The original Pathé emblem was the rooster — loud, proud, and pioneering. For this new era, Raphaël created a new emblem: the red macaw — intelligent, flamboyant, and communicative.

This rare bird represents the future of the legacy — storytelling through vibration, sound, color, and symbolic beauty.

It honors the past without being confined by it.

Independence and Integrity

The Association Raphaël Pathé Héritage is not affiliated with the current Pathé Group, nor with the owners of the British Pathé archives. Those brands are now owned by private or commercial groups without connection to the founding family.

This association is a nonprofit (Loi 1901) led by direct descendants, rooted in values of elegance, innovation, and cultural authenticity.

🇫🇷 Our Cultural Vision
We believe in the extraordinary cultural legacy of France, carried forward not through passports, but through values: art, refinement, memory, and transmission.
From the museums we wandered through as children, to the arias that echoed in the opera, to the Nouvelle Vague’s poetic realism, to the elegance of the Belle Époque, we carry forward the soul of a country that has shaped civilization through beauty.

We also honor what the kings and queens of France left us — not just palaces, but a spirit of grandeur, style, and aesthetic ambition. Through this association, we aim to carry that spirit into the future — not as a commercial venture, but as a cultural flame for the next generations to inherit. This is not nostalgia, but a living love for culture that inspires us to stage, reframe, and transmit France’s timeless artistic beauty across the world.