Samaritaine

See also: Samaritan (homonymy)

Samaritaine was a Grand store Paris IEN located in edges of the Seine in the 1st district. Samaritaine was the Grand the most important store in terms of sales area with its 48  000  m 2 , preceding little the Galleries Lafayette and Spring, and its advertizing slogan remained in the collective memory of the Parisian ones: One finds any Paris in Samaritaine .

History

It was founded in 1869, by Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ, his wife, a former first saleswoman of the ray costumes of the Cheap. Ernest Cognacq began a small shop in the Rue of the Currency in 1869. Married with Marie-Louise Jay, the couple decides to increase their store, which, thriving, extends and gives birth in 1900 to the Grands Stores of Samaritaine . Taking as a starting point the commercial methods of Aristide Boucicaut with the Cheap, Ernest Cognacq organized its store in rays managed by true small employers responsible and autonomous.

By acquisition of the buildings close to its shop, it increases its store regularly. The blocks of houses were entirely refitted or rebuilt gradually 1883 with 1933, in particular between 1903 and 1907 by the architect Frantz the Jordan who applied to it the principles of the Art nouveau. The various enlargings lead in 1933 to the department store of 10 stages realized in a typical style Art Déco by the architect Henri Sauvage. It is today classified historic building.

In prey with the deficit as of the Years 1990, the surface of the store is reduced, Samaritaine is repurchased in 2001 by the group LVMH which had previously repurchased the Cheap. The June 15th 2005, moved by reasons of setting in conformity of the building to the modern standards of safety, or because of a Reorganization as the Syndicat S think it, the store is closed for one long period.

Origin of the name

Samaritaine was the name of a Pompe with water, renovated at the 18th century on the New Pont but which goes back to the time of Henri IV. This pump was decorated with a representation of the samaritaine of the Gospels.
Ernest Cognacq would have installed its first graver in the basket of the New Pont with the site even of old the pompe.
The name of the store is sometimes shortened in Samar .

External bonds

  • Official site of the store
  • Detail of the classification of the various buildings
  • Photographs on a site of architecture
  • Opening of Samaritaine Sunday in 1913

Gallery

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