[Sca-cooks] help on 17th c. French Chocolate Drinking (Ysabeau)

[Ana Valdés]

The books I read said the chocolate was introduced in France at the wedding
of Ana de Austria and Louis XIII, in the year 1615.
Ana


On 3/28/07, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
wrote:
>
>
> *grin* And so we come round again to the original question-- because the
> original questioner, so far as I can determine, is working on
> researching this duchess (I think), which is why she's looking up
> information on 17th century chocolate drinking. :)
>
> > When I was in Germany a couple of years ago I saw a quote from a French
> > Duchess  (Liselotte) that was from the 17 Century about drinking
> chocolate.
> > She was the wife of the Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV, and the
> > daughter of  Karl-Ludwig who ruled Heidelberg & it was from her letters
> home
> > from France. The letters were supposed to have been in some form of
> > published book.  I don't have the quote or a source for it, but at least
> > it's a lead.
> > Pax,
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