Marcel Rouff

French food writer
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Quick Facts

IntroFrench food writer
PlacesFrance
isWriter Poet Novelist
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
BirthGeneva
DeathParis
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Biography

Marcel Rouff (1877 in Geneva – 1936 in Paris) was a novelist, poet, critic, and historian, a friend of Curnonsky and his collaborator on La France gastronomique.
He is perhaps best known for his account of the fictional gourmet Dodin-Bouffant, La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet (translated as The Passionate Epicure) published in 1924 and dedicated to Brillat-Savarin.
His father Jules Rouff published Jean Jaurès's Histoire socialiste, which Marcel contributed to.
He was a founding member of the Académie des gastronomes.

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