From the ArcaMax Publishing, Trivia Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/trivia/s-448140-923937

Did the French immediately take to chocolate?

In France, chocolate was initially met with skepticism and was considered a barbarous, noxious drug. The French court accepted chocolate after the Paris faculty of medicine gave its approval.

This news arrived on: 11/21/2008

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