Gaston Lenôtre, founder of Maison Lenôtre, has passed away (France)
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Gaston Lenôtre, founder of Maison Lenôtre, has passed away (France)
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Category: Europe - France - Gourmet restaurants
- Gourmet restaurants
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2009-01-12
Gaston Lenôtre died on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the age of 88 after a long illness at his home in Sologne, where he retired with his wife Catherine in the early 1990s.
Born in 1920 in Saint-Nicolas-du-Bosc in Normandy, the apprentice pastry chef went from modest beginnings to turn his life into a genuine French-style success story. From the opening of his first Parisian shop in 1957 on rue d’Auteuil, Gaston Lenôtre was to become a standard bearer for high quality delicacies. A magician-caterer at the most magnificent feasts, he shook up the traditional codes of pastry making only to serve them better. An indefatigable worker, passionate and curious as well as uncompromising with regard to quality, he succeeded in forming a solid team of successors and encouraging vocations in the pastry and cuisine professions to which he devoted his whole life. The chefs trained at Ecole Lenôtre since 1971 testify to the vitality of his teaching.
In 1985, the company set up by Gaston and Colette Lenôtre wrote a new page of its history. Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson, the founders of Accor, took a fancy to the prestigious maison, which soon joined the Group where it became Accor’s luxury signature. Since then, the trademark has pursued its development to become the renowned ambassador of French gastronomy throughout the world.
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