Oudinot-Lutel is a company based in Troyes and Paris, created by Luc César OUDINOT and his wife Thérèse Héloise LUTEL, active in the 19th century, specializing in textiles, clothing and becoming famous for his invention of a fabric basing on linen and horsehair. César-Louis OUDINOT LUTEL was a Parisian merchant who filed numerous patents, and remains famous for having invented the crinoline. He filed a first patent on 4 May 1829 for the manufacture of horsehair fabrics on silk warps and a second the same year for the manufacture of men's clothing in horsehair fabrics. He filed two patents in 1830 and 1838 for the application of horsehair fabrics to clothing. In 1837 and 1838, he also filed two patents for weaving whalebone, mixed in weft with horsehair, wool, silk, cotton and phormium-tenax. In 1840, the merchant filed a patent for the so-called crin-gaze fabric. In 1841, he filed a patent for the application of certain fabrics, woven exclusively from horsehair, to the manufacture of various articles of clothing and another for the process of manufacturing a horsehair fabric known as "corsetnoline". In 1842 and 1843, he registered a series of patents for breastplates and front trimmings made of horsehair fabric known as Oudinot knit. In the same year 1842, he patented a process of bluteries and sieves in horsehair fabric and hair called bluticrine. In 1845 he extended his range of products by patenting various toiletries made of horsehair fabric, known as claire-voie. In 1846, a patent was granted for horsehair fabric and its application to various articles of clothing, as well as for elastic horsehair fabric and its application to various articles of clothing, and for the manufacture of all kinds of fabrics with distributed elasticity in certain parts of their extent, producing gathers, bubbles and tightenings suitable for toilet articles. It was also in 1846 that the merchant patented the manufacture of a fabric known as crinosatin doubled and its application to collars and ties. He filed another patent in 1847 for an application of sliding fabrics to corsets and for double sliding fabrics intended in particular for the manufacture of corsets. Between 1849 and 1853 he patented various ways of using horsehair, and any application of this material to various useful objects, and to certain others, for the clothing of men and women. Finally, he patented a type of fertilizer in 1859.