Article: Born & bread; Apollonia Poilane took over the world's most famous bakery at the age of 18 when her parents died in a helicopter crash. Tina Isaac talks to a Parisian orphan who became a breadwinner.

Byline: TINA ISAAC

Apollonia Poilane returned to Paris from Boston a week ago, having just finished taking her third year exams at Harvard.

But while her classmates are fulfilling summer internships to bolster next year's job search, the 22-year-old economics student has come home to run the family business. She greets me in the anteroom of her grandfather's original bakery on rue du Cherche-Midi in the 6th arrondissement. From the ceiling hangs a chandelier made entirely from bread, a copy of one made by her father for the 100th anniversary of his close friend Salvador Dali's birth. The walls are lined with portraits of the loaf that now bears the ...

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