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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". 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.