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Gabriel Rouff was born in Carouge, a suburb of Geneva, Switzerland on May 4, 1877. His father, Jules Rouff, was a well-known publisher; his mother was Camille Veil. The family moved to Paris when Marcel was just an infant. He attended the Lycée Carnot, on Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris and the
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Of all the tourist guides appearing since the nineteenth century, this was the first to be expressly devoted to good regional dishes, good wines, and good restaurants. The influence of this work was immense. Henceforth, right beside
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Rouff wrote novels, plays, and poetry, as well as non-fiction, including biography, history and journalism. He may be best known today for his gastronomic writing. He and his friend
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