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  5. 54520 Laxou

  6. Lefèvre-Lemoine Confectionery Manufacturing Workshop

Lefèvre-Lemoine Confectionery Manufacturing Workshop à Laxou en Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Lefèvre-Lemoine Confectionery Manufacturing Workshop

    18 Rue de Mareville
    54520 Laxou
Photo de Lefèvre-Lemoine Confectionery Manufacturing Workshop

Timeline

Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1800
1900
2000
1840
Lefèvre-Denise Foundation
vers 1890
Laxou plant
1898
Trademark filing
1925
Family breakdown
1952
Reunification of marks
9 octobre 2024
Historical Monument
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The facades and roofs of the house and its annexes; production buildings, in total: confectionery, including the Cheyenne oven, the oven, the freight elevator, the transmission shaft with its leather straps and the kneading attached thereto; for the manufacture of bergamots, including the furnaces and the cauldron integrated therein, as well as the two marbles of the workshop. Located 16 rue de Maréville, Parcel 201, shown in the cadastre section AD, in accordance with the plan annexed to the decree: inscription by order of 9 October 2024

Key figures

Antoine-Louis Lefèvre (1814–1880) - Founder Created Lefèvre-Denise in 1840.
Louis Lefèvre-Denise (1851–1934) - Industrial Installed the Laxou factory around 1890.
Georges Lefèvre (1884–1958) - Entrepreneur Founded in 1925.
Georgette Lefèvre - Leader Started again in 1958.
Monique Lefèvre-Lemoine - Inheritance Head of the company since 1989.

Origin and history

The confectionery workshop Lefèvre-Lemoine in Laxou found its origins in the house Lefèvre-Denise, founded in Nancy in 1840 by Antoine-Louis Lefèvre. Specializing in biscuits, gingerbread and bergamots, the company expanded with the creation of a factory in Laxou around 1890 by his son, Louis Lefèvre-Denise. This industrial site, equipped with ovens and handcrafted tools, produces the famous Bergamottes of Nancy (brand deposited in 1898) and supplies the shops of Nancy.

In 1925, Georges Lefèvre, grandson of the founder, split up the family business and installed a new workshop at 6 rue de Maréville in Laxou, under the sign Lefèvre Georges. This site, equipped with a Cheyenne oven, oven and work marble, manufactures confectionery and biscuits until the 1950s. In 1952, Georges Lefèvre bought the historic brand Lefèvre-Denise and unified the productions under the name Lefèvre-Lemoine, perpetuating a Lorraine craftsmanship.

Ranked a Historic Monument in October 2024, the workshop on Rue de Maréville retains intact its industrial heritage: cast iron furnaces, bergamot boilers, and transmission mechanisms with leather belts. These equipments, combined with the home, illustrate the evolution of confectionary techniques from the 19th to the 20th century. The site remains a rare testimony of the Lorrain food industry, still linked to the current production of the brand.

The heritage protection of 2024 also covers the fronts and furniture of the shop Au Duché de Lorraine in Nancy (registered in 2022), highlighting the unity between the production sites of Laxou and the emblematic outlets. Today led by the Lefèvre-Lemoine family, the company, Nancy's oldest still active company, perpetuates historical recipes such as macaroons or bergamots, awarded in 1909.

The Laxou workshop also embodies local artistic collaborations, such as the one with CERFAV in 2016 for a glass paste mould reproducing a chocolate Saint Nicholas. This living heritage, quoted in films (Amélie Poulain) or gastronomic guides (Gault and Millau 2021), links industrial memory, innovation and Lorrain culture.

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