Chocolate marquise

Chocolate marquise, known in French as marquise au chocolat, is a chocolate dessert from France. The source names its components as dark chocolate, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, eggs and cream, which makes it a rich dessert built on chocolate, dairy and eggs. The name may be connected with the Marquise de Sévigné, who lived from 1626 to 1696, but the source offers this only as a possible link and not as a documented origin, and it gives no date, place of invention or inventor. For that reason this entry records the dish as French, with its ingredients as stated, and leaves its history open rather than repeating a legend as fact.