A mythic site for true chocolate connoisseurs, the shop of the 30 Rue des Saints-Pères is inscribed on the French Historic Monument List. It is the work of Percier and Fontaine, the architects chosen by Napoleon to carry out the construction of La Malmaison, residence of Impératrice Joséphine.
Who could better have described the atmosphere which pervades the shop than Anatole France (Le petit Pierre 1919): "its arched windows and their transom in range, the end of the store rounded like a small temple, the counter in hemicycle (...), piers with Fame figures which could as well celebrate Arcole and Lodi than cocoa cream and chocolates praline-flavoured ice creams ".