Onion Soup

Subtle, smoky-flavoured Soupe à l’Oignon is associated with the réveillon on Christmas Eve, and is a traditional winter favourite. Alexandre Dumas, in his Grand Dictionnaire de la Cuisine, tells the story of how King Stanislas, a noted gourmet, was served such a delicious onion soup while visiting his daughter and son-in-law in Versailles that he refused to leave without a demonstration of the recipe. Dumas describes the king in his dressing-gown, a sca