With her five foot baguette and six bottles of red wine, I think this women is set for the weekend. All she needs is some salty butter and a wheel of brie. Paris, 1945. Them French know how to live. I read that in some rural parts of France people still scratch the sign of the cross on the bottom of their baguette before cutting it, and traditionalists never cut the baguette from both ends. The word baguette translates as, “wand” and given its status in French culture, this bread really can perform magic.