La Trinitaine

La Trinitaine began in 1955, when pastry maker Lucien Petit kept a small shop in La Trinité-sur-Mer, on the Brittany coast. By the company's own account, he botched a batch of dough one day and, rather than discard it, baked it anyway and rolled the warm biscuits straight out of the oven, producing what became the Cigarette, a thin biscuit rolled around pure churned butter. The product sold well enough to found a biscuit business around it. Petit's son, Bernard, later built the company's production workshop in the nearby village of Saint-Philibert, which remains the brand's manufacturing base today, with visits offered to the public. The company has since passed through three generations of the same family and expanded from the original Cigarette and galette lines into salted-butter caramels, packaged Breton gift assortments, and a wider range of sweet and savory Breton groceries, while keeping production centered in Morbihan.