Chocolate in the 18th & 19th Centuries and Other Bloopers

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Here’s one for the blooper file. As I understand it, the chocolate we know it today was not invented until 1847. Until then, chocolate was known and enjoyed as a drink. So why, then, do edible chocolates appear at the end of the 18th century in both America’s First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette?

In the case of Patsy Jefferson and William Short’s romance over chocolate in America’s First Daughter, I had read about 18th century upper-class ladies in Paris eating chocolate drops. Thes...