Chocolat (1999) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Vianne Rocher: chocolatier, La Céleste Praline.
• Anouk Rocher: Vianne's daughter.
• Roux: a gypsy.
• Armande Voizin: an aging neighbor in the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes.
• Françoise Reynaud: parish curate.
• Paul-Marie Muscat: bar owner.
• Josephine Muscat: Paul's battered wife.
• Luc Clairmont: Armande's grandson.
• Guillaume: dog-lover; regular patron of the chocolaterie.
• Narcisse: regular patron of chocolaterie.
• Zezette & Blanche: regular patrons of chocolaterie.
• Caroline Claimont: Luc's mother.
• Les Marauds: The neighborhood by the river Tannes, where the houses are old and decrepit, with many of them boarded up and abandoned. The place where most of the village children play, where the "river gypsies" set up camp and all the prim and proper adults avoid.
• Charly: Add a description of this character.
• Caroline Clairmont
• Georges Clairmont
• Caro Clairmont
• Joline Drou
• Francis Reynaud
• Rimbaud
• Guillaume Duplessis
• Madame Rocher
• Cure Reynaud

Quotes edit see section history

• “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

• “Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”

• “"Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!"”

  Vianne Rocher

• “"Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same."”

  Vianne Rocher

• “"The wind always brings us back to the same wall"”

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• “I believe that being happy is the only important thing,” I told him at last. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

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• I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crash-crash-crashing among the hazels and nougatines. . . .

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• At six it is possible to perceive subtleties that a year later are already out of reach.

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• This is an art I can enjoy. There is a kind of sorcery in all cooking; in the choosing of ingredients, the process of mixing, grating, melting, infusing, and flavoring, the recipes taken from ancient books, the traditional utensils—the pestle and mortar with which my mother made

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• Children are born wild, I know. The best I can hope for is a little tenderness, a seeming docility. Beneath the surface the wildness remains, stark, savage, and alien.

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• Like a flower she grows toward the light, without thinking or examining the process that moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.

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• As an antidote I read Jung and Herman Hesse and learned about the collective unconscious. Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know. What we fear. There are no demons, but a collection of archetypes every civilization has in common. The fear of loss—Death. The fear of displacement—the Tower. The fear of transience—the Chariot.

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• The smell is like daylight trapped for years until it has gone sour and rancid, of mouse droppings and the ghosts of things unremembered and unmourned.

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• She has her own Black Man. I can see him in her eyes. He has the unanswerable voice of authority, a specious logic that keeps you frozen, obedient, fearful. To break free from that fear, to run in hope and despair, to run and to find that all the time you were carrying him inside yourself like a malignant child . . .

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• New York
• Paris
• St. Jerome
• Poitou
• Florida
• St. Francis
• Bordeaux

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Blackberry Wine.

Preceded by Birdsong, and followed by The Search.

Followed by The Lollipop Shoes.

Followed by The Return of the Naked Chef.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Joanne Harris (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Roser Berdague (Translator) - Translated into Spanish

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Contains profanity

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction
• Books › Romance

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Chocolat (IMDb): 2000

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