Even though Louis Vuitton is owned by the French conglomerate LVMH, there's still a family feeling at the ancestral home and workshops where trunks and handbags are made in a village outside of Paris. Come along for a special tour.
An early drawing shows the first Louis Vuitton workshops at Asnières. Business boomed here as Vuitton made special orders for French royalty and Egyptian pashas. His business was interrupted by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 that destroyed the French Empire. When he returned to find Asnières destroyed a year later, he started the company up again.
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An early drawing shows the first Louis Vuitton workshops at Asnières. Business boomed here as Vuitton made special orders for French royalty and Egyptian pashas. His business was interrupted by the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 that destroyed the French Empire. When he returned to find Asnières destroyed a year later, he started the company up again.
