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Bonnat

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Single-origin chocolate bars from Voiron's pioneering 1884 chocolate house

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French chocolate maker founded 1884 in Voiron by Felix Bonnat; still family-run by Cecile and Stephane Bonnat, known for pioneering single-origin bars starting in the early 1980s under Raymond Bonnat.

Bonnat was founded in 1884 in Voiron, France, by Felix Bonnat, born 1861, who had trained as a liqueur-maker, confectioner and dessert maker before turning to chocolate. By the late 1880s his Paves de Voiron had become an early success. The company remains family-run and today is headed by Cecile and Stephane Bonnat. It was Raymond Bonnat who, in the early 1980s, began producing the single-origin chocolate bars the house is now best known for - at the time a novel approach that helped establish single-origin bars as a benchmark of chocolate-making skill.