All Parisians know his name, which adorns the facades of the restaurant chain he founded in 2001 and sold in 2019: Cojean, for Alain Cojean.
In a poignant autobiography,
Nourritures celestes
, which he has just published with Mama Éditions, the Breton restaurateur opens up without taboos, revealing the most intimate aspects of his life (he admits to having painted his English teacher's car pink in high school, took LSD at university in Rennes, tried girls and boys…) without ever lapsing into shamelessness.
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Because what characterizes this fan of Louis de Funès and Tintin is his singularity.
“It's an alien
,” swears Bernard Boutboul, president of Gira Conseil, a firm specializing in out-of-home food consumption.
“Alain is a UFO”
, abounds William Lebedel, the president of the NGO Friendship France.
“He is extraordinary,”
confirms Alain Sebah, his friend for over forty years, and former boss at McDonald's.
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