The Art of French Pastry

and hazelnut paste—is one
of them. Paris–Brest was a
race created in France in
1891 by Pierre Giffard, the
editor of a newspaper
called Le Petit Journal, to
promote the use of
bicycles. The cyclists had to
race from Paris to the city
of Brest, on the coast of
Brittany, and back in a
single stretch, a distance of
1,200 kilometers, or 720