Liqueurs arrived in France with Florentine Catherine de Medici when she married Henry II in the 16th century. Over the following centuries, the French developed increasingly new and refined methods of producing liqueurs. At the time, only nobles and large wealthy houses could obtain liqueurs, because sugar was a rare and precious raw material, and therefore expensive.

   Many French people claim that the liqueur is a pure creation from us and that it appeared during the reign of Louis XIV (17th century) when the revolution was at the gates of Versailles and that the king was drowning his worries in alcoholic and sugary drinks. But let's give it a Caesar, the liqueur does come from Italy, but what is certain is that the French, for centuries, have developed incomparable recipes with unsuspected virtues.

   When sugar became cheaper, thanks to the discovery of beet sugar in the 18th century, liqueurs were found in almost every home. Mainly composed of medicinal plants, they will naturally remain remedies recognized by the greatest doctors of the time.