Easter Chocolate Browsing on rue du Bac, 75007

 Saturday I went last-minute Easter 🐇 browsing

Where to look for Easter chocolates in Paris? 

Desperately Seeking Paris Chocolate Bunnies

For most of March I’ve been haunting Paris chocolate shops. Nice work if you can get it 😀

Doing intense research 🔬 for the March Paris letter.

Paris Paques Easter

 Every year chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin consistently comes up with the most innovative twists on the traditional Easter chocolate eggs and chickens.
 

 Hevin's stupendous giant egg covered in tiny turtles was astonishing.
 

 His half eggs filled with smaller eggs, a heart and key are for romantic shoppers. Easter is not just for kids in Paris.

 Fauchon serves up champagne with a giant 'prestigious' egg - rather silly in my opinion.
 

 Very witty indeed these 'avocado' chocolate eggs from Des Gateaux et Du Pain.
 

 Chocolatier Jacque Genin does chocolate bunnies  that look like chickens that look like eggs...sort of.
 

 At Hugo et Victor an 'eco chic' bunny with green ears.
 

 La Grande Epicerie spots their bunnies and chickens with red stripes and dots.
 

Georges Larnicol is filled with enormous eggs 
 

 His poule/chickens are laying fried eggs for a change.

Where's the chocolate bacon?
 

Perhaps you would prefer not to focus on chocolate this holiday? 
 

 For mind over matter.

Certainment this chicken would like to avoid chocolat altogether.
POUIC POUIC!
 

Mon Doudou

The first thing a French bebe gets to hold after his/her maman's tata is a Doudou. In the USA we call it a 'blankie' or 'Teddy'
This pensive post was inspired by a Metro poster of a French kid clutching her Doudou.
I kept seeing clutched doudous like on rue de Rivoli and the wheels started turning. *Note French adult on the right clutching his iPod (a doudou in disguise)
A chic or tres classe doudou in mariniere stripes matching the kid's shirt, seen in a high-end shop on rue Tronchet - being well co-ordinated in Paris starts early.
A giant doudou at ART-PARIS
Ecole Ritz Escoffier has plenty of adorable doudous (presumably for adults) if you want to shell out 39-69 euros...
Can you take your doudou to Angelina?
Oui, as long as he puts his purse on a chair and NOT the floor.
Reading a table is allowed.
The doudou as fashion accessory - I first spotted Bear at Sonia Rykiel Saint-Germain it was a coup de foudre/instant love.
Once I owned another Sonia doudou. In the '80's SR made fab faux furs. Matching jaguar doudous were slung round the neck. I bought a black one and used to perch it on my suitcase at customs - I would sail through with ease. French doudous are part of my history.

Can a doudou have his own doudou?

This question keeps me up at night...

I now fully comprehend the French obsession with adorable chocolate animals at Paques/Easter. They are doudous in disguise!

A giant Easter bear/doudou being created in the Paris Ritz chocolate lab - remembrances of things past?

What do you think?

BONJOUR MON DOUDOU!

Easter in Paris

Patisserie Gerard Mulot,5" x 7"

Ok, The Easter or Pâques report in Paris.

Starting at patisserie Gerard Mulot - as always many, many ribbons, mostly pink (rose).

At La Charlotte de l'isle, her fab old fashioned chocolate molds... (I will refrain from showing you the rats this year by popular request) Chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin went for a GINORMOUS chocolate (bien sur) chicken in all of his shop windows!Chickens lay what else? Macarons.Galerie Lafayette Gourmet's floor was covered with chickens.
FYI:The difference between "poule" and "poulet"
A "poule"is a hen while a "poulet" refers to chicken meat..cooked chicken.
S.V.P. correct me on this.

Chocolatier Puyricard goes with the traditional hen decked out in orange ribbons - tres chic

Comme habitude (as usual) Sadaharu Aoki brings out his annual Green tea hens for the holiday.

Pierre Herme's poules are lurking in the dark, perhaps in recovery from Jour de Macaron day. *I noted that they are not wearing "wired" ribbons this year...hmm

Eggs within eggs within eggs in La Maison du Chocolat's vitrine plus a sprinkling of butterflies hither and thither.

I have no idea at all what's going on here at Arnaud Larher's window... An egg hunt perhaps? Eggs wearing hen's crops or whatever it is that hens wear...ahem

Ok! An instantly identifyable egg tree at prestigious and pricy chocolatier Debauve & Gallais.

Another egg tree or something similar - a pile of chocolate eggs? call it what you will - a shot stolen through an open doorway at Lenotre.

That'll teach em to keep their doors shut.

Another egg tree at I don't know where.

We end the Paris Easter report with a grand showing of egg cups, egg slicers and other eggy accoutrement for all egg lovers.

From de l'official a la table 23, rue de batignolles 75018

As for Easter hats, I spotted this charming concoction in the Metro.

If you prefer a real rabbit to a chocolate one, then the marche de oiseaux is the place. If you'd told me there would be rabbits at the bird market. Ah ha! One that got away with a stack of macaron boxes.

Joyeuse Pâques Everyone etc.!

Easter Animal Farm

Like Radio City's Rockettes, pastel chocolate bunnies do their kick and lineup act.These yellow duckies will not float in your bathtub! White chocolate not rubber. Get out the knife and go to town.

Patrick Roger's sophisticated chocolate hedgehog sits in the window on bd St.-Germain.This giant chocolate rabbit is guarding an old fashioned boulangerie in the 18th.Jean-Paul Hevin puts everything except the kitchen sink into this Easter sculpture! All edible too. Not edible - a tiny Limoge bunnie..Edible!Unlike George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM, these animals play well together. Could only the French dream up this chocolate version of a mouse/sourci? There has to be a bear in this Noah's Ark of Easter animals.
How 'bout having a ribbon tied completely around yourself? Dalloyau's big rabbit. What's inside? Little eggs?Rabbits inhabit the Metro too.. At first I couldn't find any chocolate frogs...But low and behold. Frog and rabbit went ahunting and rabbit got the carrot!