Are you curious: what is the origin of the baguette? But the itinerary of food culture is often difficult to trace, so it can only be found from limited accounts.

First of all, the historical consensus is that the baguette appeared in the 18th century, and then it was popularized on a large scale in the 19th century, at least after the French Revolution.

In October 1920, France issued a decree prohibiting bakeries from allowing pastry chefs to work from 10:00 pm to 4:00 am, in order to protect the rights of workers to work and rest normally.

But after dawn, the French have to buy bread for breakfast, and it is too late to bake traditional round bread after 4 o'clock, so the French invented the baguette which is easy to bake quickly.

But obviously, this is not realistic, there are photos taken in 1910 when the French had baguettes in their shopping baskets.

The baguette is also depicted in the 1887 painting, so the 1920 working hours ban is unreliable.

Appeared earlier than this.

It is relatively reliable to say that Vienna said that, according to the French Wiki, in 1837, the Austrian entrepreneur August Sa opened a Vienna bakery on the Rue Richelieu in Paris, and among them, there was a long bar. Viennese bread is very popular with Parisians, so it spreads.

But this statement is equally problematic. At least Hugo's "Les Miserables" mentioned the word "flûte de pain", which was the meaning of baguette in the 19th century, and Les Miserables mentioned baguette in part in the 1810s. According to Hugo, a writer who is very particular about history, it should not be described casually.

So the question is, how did the baguette come about?

Don't know, no historian can explain this clearly, but an interesting point was made in the book "The History of French Bread Written Before the Baguette".

The crispy part of the bread accounts for up to 45% of the total weight, far exceeding other pieces of bread. The French have a very unique preference for crispy crusts, whether it is a crust of bread, a crispy roast crust, or a toast crust that is baked until browned, all of which are more attractive to the French.

This may explain why baguette has become popular in France. At least the baguette meets the taste needs of most French people, but there is no way to verify it if you really want to trace it back to a certain era.