Legrand Filles et Fils, wine merchant on Rue de la Banque since 1880

Legrand Filles et Fils, the wine shop on Rue de la Banque and in the Galerie Vivienne, dates back to 1880, when François Beaugé opened a shop selling spices, coffee and tea. Soon after, the brothers Alexandre and Pierre Legrand bought the business and bottled wine in the cellar.

At the Liberation, Lucien, Pierre’s eldest son, took over. While wine sellers bought in bulk at the Halle aux vins or at Bercy, he travelled the vineyards of France to meet the growers and invented the trade of the caviste. Noiret, Serrault and Marielle were regulars, and Jean Carmet kept his cellar here.

His daughter Francine succeeded him in 1984 and brought new estates to light, Tertre-Roteboeuf in Saint-Émilion or La Grange des Pères in the Languedoc. In 2000 she sold the house to Christian de Chateauvieux and Gérard Sibourd-Baudry, who has run it since. In 2013 a Japanese family, the Nakashimas, became the majority shareholder.

In the 2nd arrondissement, the wine library brings together great growths and rising estates, beside a fine grocery, from Nyons olive oils to Rödel sardines. A restaurant serves bistro cooking around the house wines, and the house has opened a shop in Tokyo.