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# Giant chocolate Christmas tree
## A French chocolatier has created a ten-metre-high chocolate Christmas tree
in his laboratory in Paris.
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6:18PM GMT 27 Nov 2010
Patrick Roger's creation will be used to raise funds for a television charity
event to support research into neuromuscular diseases.
The tree, which is currently towering inside the chocolatier's factory in
Sceaux, weighs four tonnes and according to Mr Roger's is a piece of
"architecture".
He said: "To achieve this kind of architecture - because this really is a
piece of architecture - we used a sort of cavity inside to make the chocolate
solid enough, because there is very strong vertical pressure."
The chocolate Christmas tree will be shown on France's Telethon, a nationwide
charity appeal show, and viewers will receive part of the sugary sculpture in
exchange for a donation.
Mr Roger's laboratory also features a wide range of other chocolate
sculptures, including small Santas, reindeers and other figurines.
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