Ladurée Paris has a number of restaurants and boutiques at both Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris. If you don’t have time to shop for macarons and chocolates in Paris before heading to the airport, you can pick up these tasty treats before boarding your flight. Ladurée stores at Paris airports are open every … Continue reading Ladurée stores at Paris airports
Founded in Royat (Auvergne department) in 1892 by Clémentine and Auguste Rouzaud, Marquise de Sévigné chocolates, with their signature blue boxes, are among the most recognisable French chocolates. Back in the day, Auguste made the chocolates and Clémentine took care of the marketing. One day Clémentine sent a box of their finest confections to playwright … Continue reading Marquise de Sévigné
The store on rue Royale dates back to 1862, when founder Louis-Ernest Ladurée opened a bakery, which, following a fire in 1871, he transformed into a pastry shop. Louis-Ernest’s wife, Jeanne Souchard, hit upon the idea of combining a café with the pastry shop, and one of Paris’s first tea rooms was born. The company’s … Continue reading Ladurée
La Maison du Chocolat is probably France’s most famous chocolate shop, a veritable institution favored by chocolate lovers in Paris and around the world. Founded in 1977 by master chocolatier Robert Linxe, the company today boasts six shops in Paris, along with outlets in Le Printemps department store and at Charles de Gaulle airport, as … Continue reading La Maison du Chocolat
