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Pain d'épices is Dijon's dense honey and spice bread, fragrant with anise, cinnamon and clove, sold in loaves and as nonnettes, small round cakes of pain d'épices filled with jam.
Spiced honey bread is an ancient food, and Dijon tradition credits Margaret of Flanders, wife of Duke Philip the Bold, with bringing its ancestor to the ducal court. By the 20th century the city counted twelve gingerbread houses. Mulot et Petitjean, founded in 1796 and trading from Place Bossuet since 1805, is now the last of them, and moved production to Boulevard de l'Ouest in 1912. Besides loaves it makes nonnettes, small round pain d'épices filled with jam, from blackcurrant to orange.
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Also in: Reims, Strasbourg.
Mulot et Petitjean has baked Dijon's pain d'épices on Place Bossuet since 1796, honey spice loaves and nonnettes from France's oldest gingerbread house.
TipThree more branches trade around town, on Rue de la Liberté, Place Notre-Dame and Rue de la Chouette; this flagship is the original.
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