What Boissier is known for
Maison Boissier, Paris confectioner since 1827 and inventor of the marron glacé, sells chocolates, dragées and confections from its counter at Galeries Lafayette Gourmet.
Maison Boissier has traded as a Paris confectioner since 1827, when Bélisaire Boissier, arriving from the south of France, opened a shop that soon drew the era's fashionable élégantes — and, by reputation, admirers including Victor Hugo. The house is credited as the inventor of the marron glacé, and candied chestnuts remain its signature, wrapped in the gold paper the brand still uses today. Alongside the chestnuts, Boissier makes chocolate — pétales, mendiants, tablets and truffles — and a run of old-fashioned confectionery: sugared almonds, marshmallows, fruit pastes and the pearl-shaped bonbons boules in apricot, cherry and blackcurrant. The house keeps its own boutiques at Galerie Vivienne, rue du Bac and rue de Passy, and its best-known outpost sits inside Galeries Lafayette's Haussmann flagship, where a Boissier corner and periodic pop-ups occupy the Le Gourmet food hall alongside the store's other specialty grocers. It is a confectioner first — its own site and its Galeries Lafayette listing both center on chestnuts, chocolate and candy rather than a dedicated tea program, so shoppers looking specifically for loose-leaf tea should treat Boissier as a stop for sweets and gifting rather than a tea specialist.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Historic Parisian confectionery and chocolate — marrons glacés
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