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 "id": "saint-louis",
 "type": "House",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-10-08",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "AIC-1",
  "BNF-SAINTLOUIS",
  "LOC-SAINTLOUIS",
  "PFAP-1925",
  "REG-SAINTLOUIS",
  "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
  "WD-1"
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 "name": {
  "value": "Cristalleries de Saint-Louis",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "BNF-SAINTLOUIS",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/BNF-SAINTLOUIS.txt:7",
  "quote": "Cristalleries de Saint-Louis forme internationale",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "record_names": [
  "Saint-Louis",
  "Cristalleries de Saint-Louis"
 ],
 "kind": "glassmaker",
 "founded": {
  "value": "1586",
  "precision": "year",
  "year": 1586,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
  "sources": [
   "AIC-1"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SAINTLOUIS-1586.txt:7",
  "quote": "Born in 1586, the Müntzthal glassworks become « Verrerie royale » (Royal Glassworks) in 1767",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "born as the Müntzthal glassworks; royal glassworks from 1767"
 },
 "founders": [],
 "places": [
  {
   "place": "Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche, Moselle",
   "role": "works",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SAINTLOUIS-1586.txt:8",
   "quote": "Mouthblown and Hand-cut since 1586 in Saint-Louis-les-Bitche in Moselle.",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "notable": [
  {
   "what": "a perfume bottle, about 1845–60, at the Art Institute of Chicago",
   "bottle": "saint-louis-perfume-bottle",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "AIC-1",
   "where": "reports/l2/bottles/aic-188296.json:8",
   "quote": "Saint-Louis Glassworks (Cristalleries de Saint-Louis)",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "lineage": [
  {
   "relation": "became",
   "name": "the royal glassworks (1767)",
   "year": 1767,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
   "sources": [
    "PFAP-1925",
    "LOC-SAINTLOUIS"
   ],
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SAINTLOUIS-1586.txt:7",
   "quote": "become « Verrerie royale » (Royal Glassworks) in 1767",
   "confidence": "A",
   "note": null
  },
  {
   "relation": "acquired by",
   "name": "the Hermès group (1995)",
   "year": 1995,
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
   "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SAINTLOUIS-1586.txt:10",
   "quote": "Saint-Louis has been part of the Hermès group since 1995",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": null
  }
 ],
 "status": {
  "value": "part of the Hermès group, by its own account; an active company (French register)",
  "as_of": "2026-10-08",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
  "sources": [
   "REG-SAINTLOUIS"
  ],
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/filed/SAINTLOUIS-1586.txt:10",
  "quote": "Saint-Louis has been part of the Hermès group since 1995",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": null
 },
 "notice": "Radler Parfums is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Cristalleries de Saint-Louis. Names and marks belong to their owners; this page is a historical note.",
 "disagreements": [
  {
   "text": "The founding: 1586 for the glassworks of Müntzthal (the firm and the Art Institute of Chicago); 1767 for the royal glassworks (the BnF, the Library of Congress record and the firm’s notice of 1925).",
   "sources": [
    "SAINTLOUIS-1586",
    "BNF-SAINTLOUIS",
    "LOC-SAINTLOUIS",
    "PFAP-1925"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "links": {},
 "copy": {
  "lede": "A crystal works at Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche in Moselle that traces itself to the Müntzthal glassworks of 1586, made royal in 1767; part of the Hermès group since 1995.",
  "body": []
 },
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  "classes": [
   "CC0",
   "no licence stated",
   "open government licence"
  ],
  "commercial_use": "facts and short quotes only",
  "single_source": null,
  "licence": null
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 "wikidata_qid": {
  "value": "Q494137",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "WD-1",
  "where": "reports/plan-steps/houses/wikidata/Q494137.json:2",
  "quote": "\"qid\": \"Q494137\"",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the Wikidata item read for this house (its English label: Saint-Louis Glasshouse)"
 }
}