produces delicious candied apricots
and other fruits confits, and no one
who has seen them will forget the
gorgeous displays of crystallized
fruits of every conceivable variety
in the shops of Nice, Cannes, and
Genoa.
In the rose-coloured city of
Toulouse there is scarcely a street
without a confectioner’s window
showing little boxes of candied
violets, and one of the best of all
French sweetmeats are the delicate,
diamond-shaped little almond
paste calissons of Aix-en-Provence.
Nearly all these delicacies belong
rather to the province of the