New French Stamps Smell Like Baguettes
2024-07-27
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1Visitors to Paris for the Olympics can now send a smell of France home with their picture postcards and letters.
2The smell comes from a special stamp showing the country's famous bread called baguette.
3The sweet smell, however, may remind you of a French bakery more than an actual baguette.
4The stamp was released in May for the day of Saint-Honoré, the saint of bakers.
5Postal worker Clarisse Briend said the baguette makes people think of France.
6And she hopes visitors will pick up the stamps along with other official Paris 2024 postcards and stamps.
7The stamp sells for more than $2 at area post offices.
8Pia Schöndienst is a German visitor coming from the Netherlands with her family.
9She bought the stamps and said she could not smell anything, but her son could smell a chocolate croissant.
10"You just have to rub the stamp here like this with your nails," Clarisse Briend said.
11"You can smell the bread, the baguette."
12At the Léonie Bakery in Paris, baker Yasin Robin smelled the stamp and said, "It smells like flan," a dessert but not the baguette itself.
13Chief baker Harlem Gbodialo said he could smell something sweet on the stamp while the shop manager Jeanne Barrère compared it to vanilla.
14Regardless, Gbodialo added that the bakery expects to have many visitors at their shop near the Champs Élysées.
15"On top of that the Olympic Games are going to start next week, so it'll boost our influence in terms of clients, and also the weather's been nicer lately, so all the factors are coming together to have a great period of Olympic Games, a great party for everyone," he added.
16Eating baguettes is not as popular as it once was, but France still makes around 16 million per day - or nearly 6 billion a year.
17One story explains that Napoleon Bonaparte's bakers created the long shape to make it easier for his troops to carry.
18I'm Jill Robbins.
1Visitors to Paris for the Olympics can now send a smell of France home with their picture postcards and letters. 2The smell comes from a special stamp showing the country's famous bread called baguette. The sweet smell, however, may remind you of a French bakery more than an actual baguette. 3The stamp was released in May for the day of Saint-Honoré, the saint of bakers. Postal worker Clarisse Briend said the baguette makes people think of France. And she hopes visitors will pick up the stamps along with other official Paris 2024 postcards and stamps. The stamp sells for more than $2 at area post offices. 4Pia Schöndienst is a German visitor coming from the Netherlands with her family. She bought the stamps and said she could not smell anything, but her son could smell a chocolate croissant. 5"You just have to rub the stamp here like this with your nails," Clarisse Briend said. "You can smell the bread, the baguette." 6At the Léonie Bakery in Paris, baker Yasin Robin smelled the stamp and said, "It smells like flan," a dessert but not the baguette itself. Chief baker Harlem Gbodialo said he could smell something sweet on the stamp while the shop manager Jeanne Barrère compared it to vanilla. 7Regardless, Gbodialo added that the bakery expects to have many visitors at their shop near the Champs Élysées. "On top of that the Olympic Games are going to start next week, so it'll boost our influence in terms of clients, and also the weather's been nicer lately, so all the factors are coming together to have a great period of Olympic Games, a great party for everyone," he added. 8Eating baguettes is not as popular as it once was, but France still makes around 16 million per day - or nearly 6 billion a year. One story explains that Napoleon Bonaparte's bakers created the long shape to make it easier for his troops to carry. 9I'm Jill Robbins. 10Elena Rodriguez, Nathan Frandino, and Helena Williams reported this story for Reuters. Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English. 11_________________________________________________ 12Words in This Story 13postcard - n. a card on which a message may be sent by mail without an envelope and that often has a picture on one side 14baguette - n. a long, thin loaf of bread 15bakery - n. a place where bread, cakes, cookies, and other baked foods are made or sold 16boost - v. increase 17croissant - n. a type of roll that has a curved shape and that is usually eaten at breakfast 18factor - n. something that helps produce or influence a result; one of the things that cause something to happen 19saint - n. a person who is officially recognized by the Christian church as being very holy because of the way he or she lived 20What do you think of this story? Write to us in the Comments Section