Alexandre Étienne Choron

[1] Choron is also remembered for his dishes served during the Siege of Paris by the Prussians, which began on 19 September 1870.

[2] The bourgeois were not content to eat such low animals, and demand at the de luxe restaurants remained high.

For the midnight Christmas meal of 1870, Choron proposed a menu principally composed of the best parts of the animals kept in the Jardin d'acclimatation (one of Paris' zoos)[2][3] – stuffed head of donkey, elephant consommé, roasted camel, kangaroo stew, bear shanks roasted in pepper sauce, wolf in deer sauce, cat with rat, and antelope in truffle sauce – has become legendary.

[4] Choron also garnered fame for his dishes containing elephant: Trompe d'éléphant in sauce chasseur and Éléphant bourguignon.

In early January, it was the elephant at the Jardin des Plantes (Paris' botanical garden) which was sent to the abattoir.