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the long wand of dough made from a recipe defined in French law
It is a bread on to which some still trace the sign of the cross before cutting into it every morning for breakfast
when it is mostly spread with butter and jam
But now one entrepreneurial baker has come up with an idea that sounds as sacrilegious as putting Dom Pérignon in wine boxes: selling baguettes in a vending machine
Jean-Louis Hecht has taken advantage of the August holiday period
when many of France's 33,000 boulangers shut up shop
to install Paris's first 24-hour automated baguette dispenser
&quot;This is the bakery of tomorrow,&quot; Hecht told the Associated Press
People who work at night or early in the morning can get their fresh bread
So far Hecht has only installed two machines
one next to his baker's shop in Paris's 19th arrondissement and a second in the north-eastern town of Hombourg-Haut
The baguettes are partially cooked before they are put in the machine
then finished off when ordered and delivered crisp and steaming for €1 each
Hecht first came up with his idea two years ago
Like many bakers he was living over his boulanger
in Hombourg-Haut and was often disturbed by customers knocking on the door for bread after he had closed
&quot;My wife said: 'We'll never get any peace&quot;
'We'll put out a bread distributor and we'll be left alone,&quot; Hecht added
Marc Nexhip of the Paris bakers' union admitted he had not yet tasted one of the vending machine baguettes
but told AP: &quot;I'm not convinced that good taste can be maintained over time
they'll go to the baguette dispenser,&quot; he said.