There are several theories about how Crepes Suzette came into being. One story goes that Suzette was actually an actress named Suzanne Reichenburg who, while performing at the Comedie Française as a serving girl, carried crepes on stage. Another theory says that the aristocrat Princess Suzette Carignan tried to win over King Louis XV with the dish. However, the most popular story says that Crepes Suzette was created as the result of a happy accident in 1895. Henri Carpentier, a fourteen year-old assistant waiter at the Maitre at Monte Carlo’s Cafe de Paris, was in the process of making dessert for the Prince of Wales. The dish, which was otherwise to be called Crepes Princesse, apparently caught fire but the prince ended up loving its flambeed taste, encouraging Carpentier to name it after a young lady named Suzette. And so, Crepes Suzette was born.