It was in 1869 that the novelist accepted the proposal submitted to him by a young publisher, Alphonse Lemerre, to write a Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine. To find the calm needed to write this monumental enterprise (1152 pages), Dumas retired to Roscoff (Finistère), in the company of his cook Marie. The work was completed in...
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