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The true story of the baguette, this symbol of France now listed as a World Heritage Site

2022-11-30T18:34:12.620Z


STORY - The legends that date it to Napoleon's Russian campaign or the creation of the Paris metro have "no historical reality", according to Éric Birlouez, food sociologist.


It is an official consecration for the emblem par excellence of France in the world: this Wednesday, the baguette was listed as an intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco.

If, because of its iconic character, "

the French have the idea that it is a product registered from all eternity in the rural tradition of our country

", observes the sociologist of food Éric Birlouez, it is nothing in reality.

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Source: lefigaro

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