Chocolate ought to at all times embrace slightly fantasy and alchemy within the recipe, so it’s no shock to be taught that famed Parisian chocolatier Debauve et Gallais, was based by Sulpice Debauve, a pharmacist to the courtroom of Louis XVI, whose signature chocolate ‘pistoles’ (named after gold cash) have been developed as a manner of constructing bitter medicines extra palatable for Marie-Antoinette. Understanding of her style for consuming chocolate, Debauve blended finely floor cocoa powder with almond milk as a disguise for the drugs, which he set in flat, coin-shaped discs, thus creating the unique edible chocolate.
Debauve et Gallais’ chocolate revolution
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The pistoles have been successful and, a decade after the revolution, have been having fun with sufficient success for Debauve to open a manufacturing unit and store on the Rive Gauche in Faubourg Saint-Germain. What had been an experiment grew to become his vocation.
Over the subsequent many years, Debauve equipped the courts of each Napoleon and the Bourbon kings, partnered along with his nephew, Jean-Baptiste Auguste Gallais, and developed new flavours and beautiful codecs which are replicated right this moment with all of the mastery and data that you’d count on from a 220-year outdated establishment.
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Debauve et Gallais trades from two listed shops, on rue Vivienne and rue des Saints-Pères, the latter initially a townhouse designed by Napoleon’s favorite architects, Percier and Fontaine. A latest, delicate modernisation has seen that each shops’ historic interiors stay intact whereas providing a up to date buyer expertise.
The store at 30 rue des Saint-Pères was designed by Napoleon’s favorite architects, Percier and Fontaine
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Debauve et Gallais continues to promote pistoles, croquamandes (chocolate-coated caramelised almonds created for Napoleon), ganaches and pralines. The pistoles are constituted of Venezuelan chocolate flavoured variously with almond milk, honey flakes, orange blossom, verbena and vanilla – elements that the model suggests support sleep and restore vitality, as they did for Marie-Antoinette.
Contained in the lately renovated retailer at 30 rue des Saint-Pères
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And, as fantasy reaches us by way of the attention first, the goodies are offered in ribbon-wrapped, re-usable jewel containers that take their colors from the 1783 ‘Rose’ portrait of Marie-Antoinette by Vigée Le Brun and are embossed with the royal arms and the phrases ‘fournisseur des rois de France’ (provider to the kings of France).
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The unique inside at 30 rue des Saint-Pères
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