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Curnonsky

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Maurice Edmond Sailland (October 12, 1872, Angers, France – July 22, 1956, Paris), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. [1]

21 relations: Académie française, André de Lorde, Angers, Auguste Escoffier, Colette, Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, France, Gastronomy, Henri-Paul Pellaprat, Henry Gauthier-Villars, Latin, Le Journal (Paris), Legion of Honour, Marcel Boulestin, Marcel Rouff, Michelin, Paris, Paris-Soir, Robert Courtine, Shirt of Nessus, Tourism.

Académie française

The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language.

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André de Lorde

André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869–1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926.

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Angers

Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.

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Auguste Escoffier

Georges Auguste Escoffier (28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods.

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Colette

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

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Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs

La Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs is an international gastronomic society founded in Paris in 1950.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating.

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Henri-Paul Pellaprat

Henri-Paul Pellaprat (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, 1869-1954) was a French chef, founder with the journalist Marthe Distel of Le Cordon Bleu school in Paris.

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Henry Gauthier-Villars

Henry Gauthier-Villars (8 August 1859 – 12 January 1931) or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Le Journal (Paris)

Le Journal (The Journal) was a Paris daily newspaper published from 1892 to 1944 in a small, four-page format.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Marcel Boulestin

Xavier Marcel Boulestin (1878 – 20 September 1943) was a French chef, restaurateur, and the author of cookery books that popularised French cuisine in the English-speaking world.

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Marcel Rouff

Marcel Rouff (1877 in Geneva – 1936 in Paris) was a novelist, poet, critic, and historian, a friend of Curnonsky and his collaborator on La France gastronomique.

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Michelin

Michelin (full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a French tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paris-Soir

Paris-Soir was a large-circulation daily newspaper in Paris, France from 1923 to 1944.

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Robert Courtine

Robert Julien Courtine (16 May 1910 – 14 April 1998) was a French food writer who also wrote under the pen names "La Reynière" and "Savarin".

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Shirt of Nessus

In Greek mythology, the Shirt of Nessus, Tunic of Nessus, Nessus-robe, or Nessus' shirt was the poisoned shirt that killed Heracles.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curnonsky

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