Our Brioche is a light but rich bread. The crust is glazed before baking and turns a deep golden brown. The crumb is delicate and pale yellow in color. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his 1783 autobiography “Confessions,” relates that a “great princess” is said to have advised, with regard to starving peasants, “S’ils n’ont plus de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche,” commonly translated as “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.”