Croissants

<p>CROISSANTS WEREN’T INVENTED IN FRANCE. Mon dieu! C’est pas vrai!</p><br><p>Today Dallas finds out about the person responsible for bringing the croissant to France.</p><br><p>It wasn’t Marie Antoinette and it has nothing to do with the Turkish flag.</p><br><p>The person we have to thank is an Austrian entrepreneur called August Zang who set up a wildly popular Viennese bakery in Paris in the early nineteenth century. In amongst the Viennese goodies on show was a certain crescent shaped roll….</p><br><p>Our guest today is Jim Chevallier, author of <em>August Zang and the French Croissant</em>. Check out Jim’s website chezjim.com for more information on the croissant and beyond.</p><br><p>Produced by Freddy Chick, edited by Joseph Knight, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.</p><br><p>For more History Hit content, subscribe to our newsletters<a href="historyhit.com/sign-up-to-history-hit/?utm_sou…; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here</a>.</p>

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