 FRANCOIS-LOUIS CAILLER (1796-1852) saw chocolate for the first time at a local fair. Italian chocolate makers were stirring the exquisite potion which so titillated the nostrils of the young Francois that he went to Italy as a Swiss "immigrant labourer".
For four years he worked in the Caffarel chocolate factory in Milan. He then returned home as a master chocolate maker, and had a press with stone rollers built to his own de- sign. In 1819 he opened the first Swiss chocolate factory at Corsier, near Vevey.
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