Parlez-moi du Fouquet’s - Raymond Castans
CASTANS, Raymond. Parlez-moi du Fouquet’s: un siècle de vie parisienne sur les Champs-Élysées. Editions Jean-Claude Clattes, 1989.
First edition. This book was issued for the 100 years anniversary one of the most celebrated and chic Champs-Élysées restaurants, featuring stories about its famous patrons, including writers, politicians, artists, movie stars and other celebrities. The book if full of anecdotes, recipes, menus and photos.
A favourite with James Joyce and Georges Simenon, Winston Churchill, Aga Khan, and the stars of French of Hollywood cinema, 20th-century Fouquet embodies a century of glamorous Parisian life on Champs Champs-Élysées.
HB (ISBN: 9782709607759); 248 pp; b/w photos. Text French. Neat owner’s name to front endpaper; pages slightly browned. A very good copy.