 The interior of the cheese is straw-yellow, creamy and soft.A modern legend identifies as Brie de Meaux a certain cheese, "rich and creamy", with an edible white rind that in the eighth century Frankish Emperor Charlemagne first tasted in the company of a bishop and approved, requiring two cartloads to be sent to Aachen annually; the site, not mentioned in the anecdotal but unreliable ninth-century life of Charlemagne, "De Carolo Magno" by Notker the Stammerer, has become associated with the monastery traditionally founded by Rado in Reuil-en-Brie.This cheese was named the "king of cheeses" in 1815 by Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna.