After a career managing hotel chains in Asia and Europe, Paris-born Franck Point decided on a U-turn: move to Vancouver and start his own French bakery and pastry shop. “We love Vancouver, and we saw there was an opportunity, a niche,” he says. “We wanted to bring people an authentic Parisian experience they can have right here.”
The name Faubourg nods to the central role of baked goods in French culture. “Faubourg” is the term given to villages outlying medieval French cities — one of which, Faubourg Ste. Antoine, was famous as the cradle of the French Revolution when protestors rose up against high bread taxes. “This was when Louis XVI still had his head on his body,” Franck says with laugh. “We’re told Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake,’ and that was when it all started.”
