This French cheese from the Normandy area was first packaged in small cylindrical boxes in 1890
As he was fleeing 
from the French Revolution, abbot Bonvoust, a non-juring priest from the Brie 
area, took ... in the Paris region, then even further with the invention of the 
wooden box that was industrially manufactured by Etienne Ridel for the first time 
in 1890.