Sweet stuff

This section is a bit of a catch-all for anything sweet that’s not a pastry or a dessert; over the centuries, France’s confiseuses and confiseurs (sweet makers) have come up with some exquisite bonbons and other sweets, many of which are closely identified with a certain town or place—or major attraction.

Carambar and Haribo (who make those gummy strawberry marchmallow Tagada things French kids love, and who have a Musée du Bonbon in Uzès), are the two biggest French candy companies. The sweet-toothed visiting Paris might consider a pilgrimage to the Bonbon au Palais, which stocks the finest bonbons from all around France.