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Jean Neuhaus (1877-1953)

Born 1877 Belgium Died 1953 Nationality Belgian Profession Chocolatier Father Frédéric Neuhaus Spouse Louise Agostini

Jean Neuhaus (1877-1953) was a Belgian chocolatier, the grandson of Jean Neuhaus (the founder of the Neuhaus chocolaterie) and the son of Frederic Neuhaus. He was ranked among the 100 greatest Belgian people during the show Les Plus Grands Belges.

Biography Jean Neuhaus invented the praline in 1912. He took over the family pharmacy-sweet shop-chocolaterie located in the Queen's Gallery in Brussels. In 1912, he created the first filled chocolate : this is how the praline was born.

Three years later, his wife, Louise Agostini, imagined a new and more refined way to sell pralines and this is how the boxes of pralines were born. The purpose of the latter was (and still is) not to damage the pralines.