The French consume on average 8 kg per household per year. The Aztecs continued to drink chocolate to cool down and prepare for war.

Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with a bag of beans. Hernan Cortès popularized it and adapted it to the tastes of the time. Sulpice Debauve invented the Pistoles de la Reine for Marie-Antoinette. The Pistoles are hard and cold for the first time. All the courts of Europe will fight over them.