The case Les Petites Madeleines was first issued at the end of 1922 to commemorate one of our very faithfull customers, Marcel Proust, the year of his death.
Some sources say madeleines may have been named for a 19th century pastry cook, Madeleine, but other sources have it that Madeleine was a cook in the 18th century for Stanislaw Leszczynski.