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Raymond Berthillon: founder of Paris ice-cream parlour dies | Raymond Berthillon: founder of Paris ice-cream parlour dies |
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Raymond Berthillon, the founder of the celebrated Paris ice-cream parlour that bears his name, has died aged 90. | Raymond Berthillon, the founder of the celebrated Paris ice-cream parlour that bears his name, has died aged 90. |
The company, which closes for August, announced the death of the patriarch on Saturday on its website. | The company, which closes for August, announced the death of the patriarch on Saturday on its website. |
With lines of tourists down the street even in Paris's coolest weather, Berthillon's shop has become an institution in the decades since its founding. | |
Its ice-cream, listed in many guide books as the best in Paris, first gained fame in 1961 when the food critics Henri Gault and Christian Millau wrote about "this astonishing ice-cream shop hidden in a bistro on the Ile Saint-Louis". | |
But Berthillon said the ice-cream's first, and most demanding, critics were the schoolchildren of the island, which stands in the Seine river. | But Berthillon said the ice-cream's first, and most demanding, critics were the schoolchildren of the island, which stands in the Seine river. |
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