{"id":543,"date":"2015-05-10T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2015-05-10T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T08:58:56","slug":"an-alchemist-in-paris-in-search-of-le-veritable-mont-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipalchemist.com\/blog\/an-alchemist-in-paris-in-search-of-le-veritable-mont-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alchemist in Paris – in search of le veritable Mont Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been justly castigated and reprimanded on FB by Nicolas for having settled for a profane simulacrum of the real Mont Blanc at the Cafe Richelieu in the\u00a0Louvre, I have resolved to cast aside the cloying substitute and seek the incomparable original. So I have now come to the temple of the Mont Blanc, Angelina. Alas every tourist in Paris has had the same idea (who has been spreading my FB posts ?) so I am at the back of a long and apparently stationary queue.<\/p>\n

But eventually, I get in. \u00a0After even longer a waitress deigns to take my order. \u00a0So finally. Et voil\u00e0. Le veritable Mont Blanc.<\/p>\n

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Le veritable Mont Blanc<\/p><\/div>\n

But then there is\u00a0a problem. I noticed that the Mont Blanc at Angelina’s seemed very familiar, right down to the little chocolate widget on the top, to the one I consumed only moments before at the Louvre. Emerging into the Tuileries where there is a decent signal, judicious interwebbage reveals that the Cafe Richelieu at the Louvre is actually a branch of Angelina. So the cake that he has just scoffed is in fact identical to the one he guzzled three hours ago. This calls to mind a perennial philosophical question – can one have Too Much of a Good Thing? Based on recent experience, the answer seems to be “no”, since they were both delicious. Identically so, as it turns out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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