Adolphe Dugléré

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Adolphe Dugléré (born June 3, 1805 in Bordeaux , † April 4, 1884 in Paris ) was a French chef .

Adolphe Dugléré was a student of Marie-Antoine Carême and his successor as the personal cook of the Rothschild banking family . In 1866 he took over the Café Anglais , which he made the most famous Parisian restaurant of the 19th century.

During the World Exhibition in 1867 , Dugléré created the so-called " Dinner of the Three Rulers " (Dîner des Trois Empereurs) for Wilhelm I , Tsar Alexander II and Tsarevich Alexander III on June 7th . Even Bismarck took part in the time, which consisted of 16 courses and lasted nine hours.

The Italian composer Rossini described Dugléré as Le Mozart de la cuisine française (The Mozart of French culinary art).

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