400th anniversary of Jardin des Plantes 🌷

On Saturday I took  bus 63 

To the entrance at Jardin des Plantes. 

La Grande Chasse aux Oeufs

I'd love to know how many miles of ribbon are used on French chocolate eggs this Easter.Is this the biggest chocolate egg in the world? At Marquise de Sevigne on rue de Seine it's 2,800 kilos of chocolate (6,160 pds) and only costs 180,000 euros. Some choc eggs are decked out in pale green ribbons for the holiday. An egg within an egg at La Maison du Chocolat on rue de Sevres. The tiny boutique was so jamed-packed with shoppers they were selling chocolate eggs in the street as well. Never happen in New York :) My favorite old fashioned candy shop, Les BonBons on rue Brea had eggs up the whazoo and the shop was packed. Well every chocolate shop was packed on Saturday in Paris. Patrick Roger had giant a "Stone Henge" of chocolate eggs in his window.

Plus he used the shells as containers for even more chocolate eggs.

A miniature tableau of a mini chocolate shop on Ile St. Louis.

Fauchon, always the innovator, showed faux egg yolks in a verrine looking much like prairie oysters.

Here they are.

Your everyday egg crate filled with some of the best chocolate in Paris at Patrick Roger and costing a tad more than the average dz.

Jean Rachoux had little Piu-piu/chicks hatching in his window.

More hatchery going on in a children's boutique - non-edible this time.

A very sweet egg on rue de Rivoli - a Faberge enamel egg.

But perhaps the sweetest eggs of all.
The eggs these children found in the grass at the egg hunt at Chateau Vaux le Vicomte today!