Laurent Grimod de La Reynière
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Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1733 - 1793) was a French financier and fermier général. He was the son of Antoine Gaspard Grimod de La Reynière (1690-1756), another fermier général, and the father of the famous gastronome Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1758-1837).
In 1775 he had the hôtel Grimod de La Reynière constructed in Paris in the corner between the Avenue Gabriel et Rue Boissy d'Anglas. The architect was Jean-Benoît-Vincent Barré, and the painter Charles-Louis Clérisseau produced its interior decorative scheme, the first in Europe to be based on the archaeological discoveries at Pompeii and Herculanum.
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