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Nope, it's the same thing. Puff pastry dough rolled around a stick of dark chocolate and baked. If you go over the border to Spain, there is a shop that sells the same thing, but with nutella inside the pastry...Mmmmmm!
Then, there's almond cream, too. Or pastry cream and cherries. Or bechamel with ham and cheese. Or raisins. Or chocolate chips......
So, Susie, maybe you can confirm or correct what I've heard from others in France. Granted this is a generality, but still...
In a French boulangerie, if the pastries are great, the breads will be mediocre; while if the breads are fantastic, the pastries will be of a lesser quality. It seems that the bakers can do a great job with one or the other - but not both in one shop (unless it's a big enough one to hire enough bakers to specialize.)
This is a very small town I live in...less than five thousand people, and that includes all the farms and outlying villages...and we have five bakeries, six if you include the one at the supermarket, and also two pastry shops.
If you want good bread, you go to one or the other, depending if you want whole grain, baguette, or sourdough. For a fancy cake to take to Granny's on Sunday you go to another one. A special yummy pastry, yet another. Even better pastry, or special gourmet chocolate, yet another.
If you don't like the baker or if his wife has insulted you, there are others. One gives candies to the kids, if they're the ones fetching the loaf. When the credit hasn't been paid off at one, turn the corner and go to the next one....til you have no more credit there, either (at the end of the month, you can pay off the debts, and begin again). If the one that is a bit 'touchy' (he LIKES to knead things) gives you the creeps, go to the one that sings. If the one with the three little kids that touch each pastry gives you a bad taste in your mouth, go to the one with the stringy un-tied-back hair.
It's Friday so I picked up some Apple Napples from Nepoleans Bakery/Zippys. It's kind of a Friday tradition at our shop and the lady at the counter said they sell more pasteries on Friday than any other day...so I guess we aren't alone.
It's Saturday morning, and the kids are still in bed. I'm drying apples and making apple butter, so I expect that that's the menu for breakfast, maybe with some hot bread from the bakery, and sweet butter, too.
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