The chocolaterie is an old dream of hers. She has an innate talent for cooking and a charming personality. She tries to fit in and help her customers. She starts to build a group of regular customers, including Armande, Guillaume and Narcisse, and, to Reynaud's dismay, she doesn't go out of business. Reynaud attempts to have Vianne run out of town, and he talks about her every Sunday at church. Some people stay away, but not for long. His conflict with her becomes his personal crusade.

I can see where both sides were coming from, and it made the whole thing uncomfortable. The priest is in the wrong, he sees Vianne as a threat to his congregation, he acts in a way he believes is right - but often frequently doubts his own path. Once Armande’s daughter comes to Vianne and having a talk with her, tells that her mother has the serious problems with her health, and her mother must follow the special diet, where the sweeties are not allowed. Vianne talks about it with Armande, but she is a willful woman and says that she’ll do what she wants to do, and eat what she wants to eat. Once the old woman says that there will be her birthday soon and she wants to celebrate it well: to make a party with a lot of guests: she invites not only the citizens, but some of the gypsies as well. The party was a success: the atmosphere was fun and pleasant. Armande is happy to spend her birthday in this company. At the end Vianne and Roux stay alone to clean everything after the party. They spend a night together. The next day Armande dies. It’s getting difficult to find my cookbooks in physical form, but they’ve recently all been published digitally right here… Sciogliete insieme burro e cioccolato a bagnomaria, nel frattempo ( che bello questo vocabolo in cucina, mi sono sempre immaginata come la dea Khalì, peccato che sia un tantino lontana) dicevamo, nel frattempo unite zucchero e tuorli d’uovo girando fino a far diventare una crema spumosa ( se non viene aggiungete un goccio di latte). I bianchi d’uovo vanno montati a neve a parte. Una volta sciolto tutto sul fuoco aggiungete la composta allo zucchero e le uova e girate lentamente. Aggiungete farina, cacao e lievito che sono stati precedentemente setacciati. Ringrazio il setaccio Ikea che fa un lavoro splendido a proposito. Quando tutto è perfettamente amalgamato aggiungete con cura i bianchi d’uovo girando da sotto verso sopra lentamente altrimenti si smontano. Ecco, ci siamo. Avete oliato e imburrato una teglia e nel frattempo riscaldato il forno? Se si proseguite infornando tutto, altrimenti aspettate :- ) . La cottura varia da forno a forno. Imparate a conoscere il vostro. Ma ricordatevi che solo dopo 20 minuti potrete aprire lo sportello per la prima volta altrimenti non lievita più. Saggiate la consistenza che più vi piace con uno stecchino. Wilmington, Michael (December 22, 2000). "Chocolao: A Romance-Comedy-Fairytale That's Sinfully Sweet". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved April 20, 2020.Yet, I could not dislike this book. It was strangely addicting. Reading it was like eating a confection you know is not very good when compared with something of a higher calibre, but you keep mindlessly eating it anyway though you're not sure why. If Vianne's chocolaterie is to survive, it will take kindness, courage and a little bit of magic... pagine che si alternano tra avvenimenti e ricordi, smosse da un vento magico, quasi esotico, che sembra dirottare la vita dei personaggi, e sembra quasi voler suggerire una risposta al pindarico quesito:

Nor is the book set at any particular time. I deliberately wanted to give it an old-fashioned feel, to suggest that this was a place where nothing had changed in many years, whilst retaining some elements of modern life. There are still many rural communities in France – especially in the south – where this remains a true depiction, but Chocolat was never intended to be an accurate representation of “today’s France”. It is a France seen through a very selective, very personal filter which has as much to do with nostalgia as with present-day realism. Schwarzbaum, Lisa (December 15, 2000). "Chocolat (2000)". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved April 20, 2020.Il burro e le uova dovrebbero essere a temperatura ambiente ma visto che mi decido sempre all’ultimo minuto e non mi va di aspettare fa lo stesso, anche per voi eh!

Vianne doesn’t go to church, as is her right, but this doesn’t sit well with the community. At the same time she is quite open about her disregard for the others beliefs. There are two first person narrators of this story. One is Vianne and the other is the priest, Monsieur Renynauld. Vianne tells the story to us, the reader, and the Monsieur tells his to someone called only "mon pere". I liked it. It added a mystery to the story, that slowly unfolded. It was a good story. A struggle between good and evil in a tiny little villiage that did not take well to outsiders. I enjoyed reading this book very much. A little bit of magic, good people, bad people, gypsies, little songs in French, an imaginary friend, love, loss, mystery and more chocolate drink than I could have imagined. The names of the candies made my mouth water. The story made me laugh at things a little girl can say it made me cry over an old man and his old dog. It made me think about what it means to hear someone say that they had lived a good life and how they wanted that life to end on their own terms.The young daughter of Vianne, she is quite capable of showing wisdom and understanding beyond her years. She has an imaginary friend/pet she calls Pantoufle. Pantoufle

Père Reynaud pays Vianne a visit: it is Sunday, and he didn’t see Vianne or her daughter at church. Vianne explains, “We don’t attend, you know.” When the priest learns that Vianne is unmarried, his outrage turns to horror. There are so many layers to this book. It is a story of a strong woman who has a different way of living her life. This fact creates fear in many people, especially those who approach life in a rigid, unforgiving manner. The local priest believes from the beginning that Vianne is an enemy of decency; he creates for himself the task of exposing her as the evil witch he believes her to be.Francis Reynaud, village priest who is in his thirties. He tries to make Vianne and her daughter leave as he believes her shop is inappropriate and better suited for the cities. He comes to believe that she is Satan's helper. He is fanatical and puritanical in his beliefs, due to the inspiration of Père Michel, his predecessor, and his troubled childhood. He has a strong sense of dignity, which might be mistaken for pride sometimes, an obsession with following the rules and believes himself superior in terms of moral strength and intellect as he observes with chagrined disdain in one of his confessions. During the whole story Vianne is full of predictions, she inherited the magic skills from her mother, she sees things that are the deep secrets of other people, for example, the cure has the father, who is in coma for a long time, and Vianne sees Reynaud by the bed of his father, etc. Update this section!