Grimaud is a brand of playing cards published by France Cartes Cartamundi, a manufacturer of playing cards and board games based in Lorraine.
History
In 1840, Baptiste-Paul Grimaud, a 23-year-old man from Brûlain near Niort, moved to Paris.[1]
In 1851, he joined forces with two merchants, Eugène Martineau and Marcel Bourru, who eventually sold him their cardmaking operation. A few years later, the company implemented a process to manufacture round-cornered playing cards, an innovation that was very successful.[1]
Industrializing the card manufacturing process and buying out or outdoing its competitors (Camoin in 1885, Lequart and Mignot in 1891, Bony, Dieudonné and Fossorier and Amar in 1910), Grimaud gradually became the biggest French cardmakers.[1]