A youthful look, a lion's mane carefully disciplined, a false air of Jean Gabin, Michel Cluizel, the current patriarch of the Manufacture Cluizel has a lot of pace and enthusiasm. Is that still burn her two passions that drove him to live his life briskly: chocolate and new machines! Because he cherishes a special affection roasters, grinders, the wrappers, the cuiseuse to pralines, all that glitters, mixing, refining the beautiful field of soft and shiny or silky chocolate praline and redolent of hazelnut.
After six months of learning a pastry de la Croix Rousse, where he had the unique opportunity for the time to learn to work the chocolate (we are in 1925), the young novice grown mustaches and starts his account. With this success, he then did his military service in the officers' mess, improvising cook through a cookbook purchased for the occasion. "Mounted" in Paris, he falls for a young independent woman who had a small confectionery and wife. Michel was born in 1933, in the midst of chocolates made in the back room that also served as living room. The scent of happiness that sealed his fate.
