Another Portrait here from Paris of the master chocolatier Michel Chaudun. He was a former employee of La Maison du Chocolate in Paris but decided to set up his own exclusive shop a few years ago, his business has since expanded and he now also has an outlet in Tokyo. He was quite a modest man and looked every bit the artisan in his leather apron. He was very obliging during the shoot and once we were done he very kindly gave me some edible souvenirs to take away with me - nice! One of his signature creations are chocolates called 'Paves de la rue de l'Univerite' (translated as 'Cobblestones of the rue de l'Universite'). The street refers to the street where his shop is located and each chocolate was in the shape of a cobblestone in reference to the famous May '68 protests in Paris when most of the streets cobblestones were torn up by protesters to form barricades or to be lobbed at members of the infamous French riot police, the CRS. Inside the box on top of the chocolates there was a nice graphic of a cobblestone with the inscription 'Say it with a cobblestone!' - they certainly did in May '68, right on brother!
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