Madame Proust helps Paul remember his childhood using madeleines dipped in herbal tea. Marcel Proust's most famous work, Remembrance of Things Past, begins with involuntary memory brought about the same way.
Final film of Bernadette Lafont.
PROLOGUE: "We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary where, at random, we pick a soothing drug or a dangerous poison. --- Marcel Proust"
Filming took place in the Paris area from mid-July 2012 and lasted 46 days.
Simply made of choux pastry made of water (or milk), butter, wheat flour, eggs and salt, the chouquette, short for cabbage with the suffix "ette", was created in the 16th century by the Italian pastry chef Popelini who, while working at the court of Queen Catherine de Medici, imported it to France.
the same dough that's used to make eclairs and profiteroles.
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