Jean Trogneux
Jean Trogneux shop, Saint-Quentin, 2012
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| Industry | Chocolatier |
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| Founded | 1872 |
| Founder | Jean-Baptiste Trogneu |
| Headquarters | Amiens, France |
| Products | Chocolate |
| Website | www |
Jean Trogneux is a French chocolatier, run by five generations of the Trogneux family, and based in Place Notre Dame, in the centre of Amiens, France. They are best known for their macarons, of which they manufacture two million every year. As well as seven outlets in Amiens, they have shops in other cities in Picardy and the north of France – Lille, Arras and Saint-Quentin.
Trogneux have seven retail shops in Amiens, as well as Lille, Arras and Saint-Quentin, in Picardy and the north of France.
Jean Trogneux produces chocolates, macarons d'Amiens, douceurs de saison and sells jams, pâtés, honey and other regional specialities. Altogether they sell 800 different products, and in 2015 sold more than two million macarons.
They are particularly known for their macarons, and with family member Brigitte Trogneux married to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, this has led to inevitable wordplay in the press, "On avait déjà le macaron d'Amiens. Maintenant, on a aussi le Macron d'Amiens !" (We already had the macaron of Amiens. Now we also have the Macron of Amiens!)
The business was founded in 1872, by Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, a baker and patissier, in the quartier Gambetta-Delambre-Duméril, in the centre of Amiens. His son created the recipe for macaron d'Amiens, which is still the company's flagship product.
Brigitte Trogneux's parents were Simone (née Pujol; 1910–1998) and Jean Trogneux (1909–1994), who owned the five-generation Chocolaterie Trogneux, and the company was renamed Jean Trogneux after Brigitte's father.
The business is now run by Jean-Alexandre Trogneux, nephew of Brigitte Trogneux, and the fifth generation in charge of the family firm.
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