 This apocryphal story, for which there is no evidence, is still often accepted as true.Marie Harel did make Camembert cheese, according to local custom.She initiated a dynasty of entrepreneurial cheese makers who produced Camembert cheese on a large scale, notably her grandson Cyrille Paynel, born in 1817, who created a cheese factory in the commune of Le Mesnil-Mauger in Calvados.