pierre banchereau interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM debeaulieu, a distinctive little flower shop in the 9th arrondissement with a vision OLIVIER ZAHM — Debeaulieu is a nice name for a flower shop. PIERRE BANCHEREAU — I didn’t come up with it. It’s my maternal grandparents’ name. They were very important to me as a child. And because I am a bit reserved by nature, I didn’t want to use my own name. I wanted something more discreet. OLIVIER ZAHM — Tell me about your maternal grandparents. PIERRE BANCHEREAU — I grew up in Anjou, in the Loire Valley, in a provincial, cultured bourgeois world. I was curious about everything. We would come to Paris on the weekends to see major exhibitions, and we visited the castles in the Loire. My grandmother liked to invite people over, and there were always flowers in the house. She cooked, served good wine, and invited…