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Byline: GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG editor: Abigail Walch
A seventeenth-century French candle company arrives Stateside.
Founded in Paris in 1643 in a shop on rue Saint-Honore, the chandler Maison de Cire Trudon furnished the royal courts of Versailles (illuminating the Hall of Mirrors, acting as apothecary and distiller to Queen Marie-Therese, providing Louis XVI with his bedside candle, as well as the ones he brought into captivity) and, after the Revolution, took commissions from Napoleon. Today, Cire Trudon still supplies many of France's great churches and cathedrals (Paris's Saint-Roch among them), as well as luxury brands like Hermes, Cartier, Guerlain, and Dior. This month, the candles arrive ...