Cheese topped onion soup

Cheese topped onion soup, originally uploaded by riptideredsf.

I can't remember the last time I made French Onion Soup and apparently yesterday doesn't count because Dorie and Around My French Table calls this Cheese Topped Onion Soup. It wasn't until I was standing over the table and looking at this I started thinking that this didn't look like any French Onion Soup I've ever seen. It took me a moment to figure it out (with a little help from Julia Child) that beef bouillion and red wine are the traditional stars of French Onion Soup...and of course those little brown crockery bowls, yet this pale imitation with chicken bouillon and sherry and topped with super market swiss cheese? Tres Bon!