The story
Jean Galler, born in Liège on 6 February 1955, began his schooling at the Liège hotel school, and worked as an apprentice in the family bakery founded by his grandfather in 1930. He was distinguished with being named the Best Apprentice in Belgium at the age of 19. He then went to Basel to attend development courses at the school for pastry chefs and confectioners, COBA, before carrying out an internship in 1975 at Gaston Lenôtre in Paris.
Passionate about chocolate, at 21 years old he had the opportunity to take over the facilities of the former chocolate factory Régal des Fées in Clermont-sur-Berwinne, previously owned by chocolate factories Aiglon (Verviers) then Clovis (Pepinster), and so, together with his father, create the Galler Chocolate Factory in Vaux-sous-Chèvremont in 1976.
In 1994, he became Official Supplier by Appointment to the Court of Belgium and the following year he was elected manager of the year by Trends. The same year, Jean Galler worked with cartoonist Philippe Geluck to create "Langues de Chat" illustrating the character of Le Chat. Nearly twenty years later, Geluck and Galler changed their range and named it Les Chocolats du Chat to avoid confusion with biscuits of the same name.
From Wikipedia’s article on Galler (chocolate), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4