Hotel Fauchon review: a sweet stay in Paris

Legendary Parisian delicatessen brings its own flavour to new hotel

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Let them eat cake! So said Marie-Antoinette - or did she? Apparently something was lost in translation and the baked goods in question were in fact brioches. An altogether more likely story, however, is that she said nothing of the sort: the historic malentendu is supposedly down to writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who actually attributed the remark to an unspecfied “great princess”.

No matter. The point is, who wants cake when you can have macarons? All day and at any time? This is just one of the highlights of the new Hotel Fauchon, situated a stone's throw away from Fauchon's original shop on Place de La Madeleine which first opened for business in 1886.

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