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 "id": "roure-bertrand-fils",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GILD1913",
  "GIV-EXPANSION",
  "GIV-PIONEERS",
  "GIV-SCHOOL80",
  "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
  "PFAP-1925",
  "POP-ROURE"
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 "name": {
  "value": "Roure-Bertrand Fils",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "PFAP-1925",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:35",
  "quote": "Les archives de la « Maison Roure-Bertrand Fils » remontent à 1820.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Roure",
  "Roure-Bertrand"
 ],
 "kind": "producer of naturals",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1820",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1820,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
  "sources": [
   "PFAP-1925",
   "POP-ROURE"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:12",
  "quote": "la société Roure-Bertrand, fabrique de produits aromatiques à Grasse, fondée en 1820",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "founders": [
  {
   "name": "Claude Roure (1778–1860)",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:35",
   "quote": "Le fondateur de la Maison, Claude Roure (1778-1860), avait installé un modeste laboratoire",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the house’s own notice of 1925; the Inventaire notice says the firm was “apparently” founded by Claude Roure early in the 19th century"
  }
 ],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Grasse, a laboratory below the old college, then the Capucins quarter",
   "role": "founded in",
   "origin": "grasse-fr",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:35",
   "quote": "d’abord au-dessous de l’ancien collège de Grasse, et ensuite au bas de la rampe des Capucins",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "place": "Neuilly, a composition laboratory (by 1930)",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-PIONEERS",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-PIONEERS.txt:7",
   "quote": "Roure’s composition laboratory in Neuilly in 1930",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
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 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "Louis Roure’s method for the “essences concrètes”, shown at Vienna in 1873",
   "year": 1873,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GILD1913",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GILD1913.txt:8",
   "quote": "devised a method for the preparation of the so called essences concretes",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "what": "worked in the firm’s composition laboratory from 1930",
   "perfumer": "germaine-cellier",
   "year": 1930,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-PIONEERS",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-PIONEERS.txt:8",
   "quote": "hired to work in Roure’s composition laboratory in Neuilly in 1930",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "said of Germaine Cellier (Givaudan’s own history)"
  },
  {
   "what": "began the perfumery school at Grasse in 1946",
   "perfumer": "jean-carles",
   "year": 1946,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "GIV-SCHOOL80",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/GIV-SCHOOL80.txt:7",
   "quote": "This story began in Grasse in 1946 with Jean Carles",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "the same release speaks of “uniting the creative culture of Roure” with Givaudan’s"
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "renamed",
   "name": "Société Anonyme des Etablissements Roure-Bertrand Fils (1924)",
   "year": 1924,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "PFAP-1925",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/PFAP-1925.txt:39",
   "quote": "les héritiers de Louis-Maximin Roure ont fondé en 1924 une Société anonyme",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "merged into",
   "name": "Givaudan, as Givaudan-Roure (Roche bought Roure in 1964)",
   "house": "givaudan",
   "year": 1964,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/HLS-GIVAUDAN.txt:12",
   "quote": "qui acquiert en 1964 la société Roure-Bertrand",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "closed: the Grasse site shut in 1998 and the Roure-Bertrand trading name ended",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "POP-ROURE",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/POP-ROURE.txt:8",
  "quote": "après la fermeture du site en 1998 et la disparition de l'entité commerciale Roure-Bertrand",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Roure-Bertrand Fils. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "When Givaudan and Roure were joined: the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland dates the name Givaudan-Roure SA from 1991; Givaudan’s own history says 1992.",
   "sources": [
    "HLS-GIVAUDAN",
    "GIV-EXPANSION"
   ]
  }
 ],
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 "copy": {
  "lede": "A Grasse house of natural raw materials whose archives go back to 1820, founded by Claude Roure; it worked in the Capucins quarter, was bought by Roche in 1964 and joined to Givaudan, and its Grasse site closed in 1998.",
  "body": [
   "Louis Roure’s concretes were shown at Vienna in 1873. Germaine Cellier worked in its Neuilly composition laboratory from 1930, and Jean Carles began the perfumery school at Grasse in 1946."
  ]
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  "note": "no Wikidata item for the firm was found (searched 2026-10-08)"
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