[Illustration: Fig. 76.--Banner of the Corporation of Bakers of Paris.]
[Illustration: Fig. 77.--Banner of the Corporation, of Bakers of Arras.]
The most celebrated bread was the white bread of Chailly or Chilly, a
village four leagues (ten miles) south of Paris, which necessarily
appeared at all the tables of the _elite_ of the fourteenth century. The
_pain mollet_, or soft bread made with milk and butter, although much in
use before this, only became fashionable on the arrival of Marie de
Medicis in France (1600), on account of this Tuscan princess finding it so
much to her taste that she would eat no other.
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