Well Jean-Marc clearly said that he makes French and American pastry.

As you can see the croissants are typical croissants from the moon crescent form that are the original form. Palmiers are also the same. Macarons .. well you are French I don't even have to explain you why they are typical (8th century more or less).
If you look closely at the shelf you'll see many of those specialties we enjoy on the morning like "pain au chocolats", "chaussons au pommes", "pains suisses".
You'd also recognize a small kouign amann rounded on the lower shelf on the pasteries side, which is typically only butter sugar an a little of flour. You'd also notice some "guimauves" that are only eggs white and sugar.

Yes he has some American specialties too, but isn't it quite intelligent from him to adapt his recepies to his customers ?

But for me it's largely French enough to be better than some bakeries we have in some towns.

All those macarons

http://i.imgur.com/tDqaR.jpg

Okay, so I submitted this video and I think both #1 and #2 are right. I have to agree with #1 because Jean-Marc Chatellier seems more like a pastry shop (pâtisserie) than a bakery (boulangerie), and as much as I'm informed those two are separate entities in France, right? I've been in France as a teen and that was my take on it then..please correct me if I'm wrong, because that was many years ago. But this is the US and I think Jean-Marc Chatellier is a hybrid of both a pâtisserie and a boulangerie and both French and American as #2 mentioned for the purpose of his customers...I have been to his shop in Pittsburgh and the quality of his baked goods are amazing, especially his plain croissants which are my favorite...he also makes "penguin"pastries, because of the Pbgh Penguin hockey team..
#1, btw this is not a German adaptation of a bakery, German bakeries do not cover their baked goods with a lot of sugar, I know this for sure, only American bakeries do...

#4, you win the internet. Yes the WHOLE thing.

#5 they are two different jobs, almost all the backery sell pastery.
Most of the time the same person does both of them. In some case a specialist is dedicated to the pastery but yet some of them like the croissant are made by the backer.

Sometimes there are some pastery shop only. But it's very rare and specific. For example in Paris you can find the house Ladurée that only make Macarons.

#4 #6 wow just woke up my wife with my laugh from looking at that image bndbnd. Yes you Win The Whole Thing.

#7 Again my favorite is definitely his croissant but plain, nothing on it, but the macarons are really amazing. I wished he would make more bread items (non sweet) like different kinds of baguette etc because I would definitely get some when in Pbgh.