Chocolate: The Queen's Pistoles
Marie-Antoinette’s Pistoles: More Than Two Centuries of Innovation and Tradition
It was in the 18th century that Sulpice Debauve, Louis XVI’s official pharmacist, invented the first therapeutic chocolate bar.
He created, for Queen Marie-Antoinette—who was suffering from migraines at the time—thin, cocoa-rich (99%) palets with “health benefits,” in which he mixed a remedy for headaches with cocoa butter; she named them “Pistoles de Marie-Antoinette.”
Chocolate: A Product of Hygiene and Health in the Age of Enlightenment.
Marie-Antoinette's Pistole is a concentrated blend of flavors and health benefits, available in the following varieties:
- with almond milk (soothing and calming),
- vanilla (aids digestion and is stimulating),
- with cinnamon (which has healing and aphrodisiac properties),
- with orange blossom (antispasmodic),
- with Earl Grey tea (invigorating and refreshing),
- sugar-free (for people with diabetes),
- with orgeat cream (invigorating),
- coffee (a stimulant).
Since 1779, Debauve et Gallais (a chemist who filed the patent for lactoline, a precursor to powdered milk) has maintained the highest standards of quality in its selection of ingredients.
Popular with discerning consumers, these iconic chocolates are free of soy lecithin and contain very little sugar.
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