Name Marcel Rouff Died 1936, Paris, France | Role Novelist | |
Books The Passionate Epicure: La Vie Et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet, Journey to the Inverted World | ||
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 Jaures's Histoire socialiste, which Marcel contributed to.
He was a founding member of the Academie des gastronomes.
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