1 · Position
Founded in 1895, forty-three years after Boucicaut began at Le Bon Marché, and the youngest of the Paris grands magasins to have survived continuously to the present.
2 · Why it is in the Library
It belongs to the group as the case that shows the form was still worth entering half a century after its invention — and it remains the one most visited by travellers, which makes it a hospitality object as much as a retail one.
3 · Candour
⚑ Thin. The founders, the dome, the ownership and the current operation were not established here. It should be completed before it is cited.