Marcel Rouff, was a novelist, poet, critic, and historian.
Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Carouge (Geneva) – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer. With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France).[1] He may be best known today for his novel about the fictional gourmet Dodin-Bouffant, La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet (The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet also translated as The Passionate Epicure), which was first published in 1924 and dedicated to his friend Curnonsky and the great nineteenth-century French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Rouff's novel was adapted for French television in 1973 by Jean Ferniot and in a 2023 feature-length movie by Trần Anh Hùng, The Taste of Things[2]· .[3]
Rouff had socialist leanings, which were apparent in his writings on social history.[4] He was influenced by Jean Jaurès, and he contributed to Jaures's Histoire socialiste,[5] which his father, Jules, published.[6]
MarcelRouff (May 4,1877 in Carouge (Geneva) – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic...
character of the gourmet is based on Dodin-Bouffant, created by Swiss author MarcelRouff in his 1924 novel La Vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet (The...
character. In 1921, he began writing a series of regional travel guides with MarcelRouff, published under the collective title of La France Gastronomique: Guide...
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Dodin, Seychellois sprinter Dodin-Bouffant, fictional gourmet created by MarcelRouff This page lists people with the surname Dodin. If an internal link intending...
Journey to the Inverted World (2011) (Voyage au Monde à l'Envers by MarcelRouff (1920)) ISBN 978-1-61227-039-5 Amilec (2011) (Amilec (1753); Giphantie...
house open during World War II, along with Jacques Fath, Maggy Rouff, Nina Ricci and Marcel Rochas. Pundir, Nirupama (2007). Fashion Technology: Today and...
Georges Baermann Jean Hébey as L'hôtelier Marcel Maupi as L'oncle Anne-Marie Bruslay as Barbara Jean-Jacques Rouff as Puntamento Monique Delavaud Arsenio...
century, enthusiasm was at its peak. So specialized publishers emerged: Jules Rouff, one of the most prolific; Arthème Fayard, who launched Le Livre populaire...
that kept the doors open at fashion houses such as Jacques Fath, Maggy Rouff, Marcel Rochas, Jeanne Lafaurie, Nina Ricci, and Madeleine Vramant. Permed hairstyles...
(1965), La Fin de Pierre Laval [The end of Pierre Laval] (in French), Paris: Rouff. Thompson, David (1951), Two Frenchmen: Pierre Laval and Charles de Gaulle...
war, several new houses remained open, including Jacques Fath, Maggy Rouff, Marcel Rochas, Jeanne Lafaurie, Nina Ricci, and Madeleine Vramant. During the...
fils edition, Paris, 158 p. 1950 (Rouff edition publication date): Une fichue mission, with Maurice Hennequin, Rouff edition, 128 p. Floretta and Patapon...
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