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“Our national spirit? It is the alliance of the table and the feather! "

2021-10-19T17:46:27.618Z


TRIBUNE - While a collective book, Christian Millau, Une vie au gallop pays tribute to the famous food critic, who died in 2017, the journalist and writer Thomas Morales brilliantly draws the France he embodied.


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“Christian Millau, a galloping life.

Portraits croisés ”, edited by François Jonquères, prefaced by Frédéric Vitoux, from the Académie française, Éditions du Rocher, 224 p., € 21.90.

The presidential election will come down to one question: what is France?

In his own way, a man tried, throughout his professional life, to embody this impalpable identity.

He flew the tricolor on tables around the world and on bookstore stalls.

Christian Millau, founder of the guide - with his friend Henri Gault -, baron of the paper press, food critic and traveling companion of the Hussars, everywhere at home, at Paul Bocuse's piano or visiting Céline, the hermit of Meudon, equally at home in the anterooms of German-speaking publishers as in the suburban bars, combined style and good food.

He even made the front page of

Time

in 1980.

Christian Millau, a galloping life,

prefaced by Frédéric Vitoux and orchestrated by François Jonquères, has just brought together all

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Source: lefigaro

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