In the year of grace 1725, Louis XV married Marie Leszczynska,

daughter of King Stanislas of Poland.

His pastry chef Stohrer follows her in Versailles.

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Five years later, in 1730, NICOLAS STOHRER opened his bakery

at 51 rue Montorgueil in the second arrondissement of Paris.

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In its kitchen, where desserts were invented for the Great Court,

king’s delights are still prepared.