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the zig zag company was founded in 1879 by maurice and jacques braunstein.  based in paris, in 1882 the company built the papeterie de gassicourt, a cigarette paper production plant near the town of mantes-la-jolie, france.  in 1894 they invented the process of “interleaving” rolling papers.  they called their papers zig zag, after the term used to describe the process.  in 1900 they were awarded a gold medal at the universal exposition in france. The character portrayed on the front of the company’s products , colloquially known as the “zig zag man”, originates from a folk story about zouave, a french colonial soldier at the battle of sevastopol during the crimean war.  when the soldiers clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco into a cigarette with a piece of paper torn from his bag of gunpowder.

the zig zag company was founded in 1879 by maurice and jacques braunstein.  based in paris, in 1882 the company built the papeterie de gassicourt, a cigarette paper production plant near the town of mantes-la-jolie, france.  in 1894 they invented the process of “interleaving” rolling papers.  they called their papers zig zag, after the term used to describe the process.  in 1900 they were awarded a gold medal at the universal exposition in france.

The character portrayed on the front of the company’s products , colloquially known as the “zig zag man”, originates from a folk story about zouave, a french colonial soldier at the battle of sevastopol during the crimean war.  when the soldiers clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco into a cigarette with a piece of paper torn from his bag of gunpowder.

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