Bernard Loiseau biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Bernard Loiseau

Author Name:

Bernard Loiseau

Born As:

Bernard Loiseau

Other Names:

Born:

13 Jan 1951

Died:

24 Feb 2003




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Chef                          
                          
Wife Dominique Loiseau                          
Hailed as a prodigy by the Gault Millau guide at age 21.

La Côte d'Or, now in the hands of executive chef Patrick Bertron, is still a three-star establishment, due to the efforts of Bertron and Loiseau's second wife Dominique.

Awards:

The French government awarded him its highest honour:

Chevalier (Knight) de la Légion d'honneur - 1994 Chevalier (Knight) de l'Ordre national du Mérite - 1986
Officier (Officer) de l'Ordre national du Mérite -  2002
Chevalier du Mérite agricole.                          
Committed suicide on February 24, 2003, shooting himself in the mouth with his shotgun after a full day of work in his kitchen.

Rumour that Michelin was planning to remove one of La Côte d'Or's three stars.

A few weeks before his death, Loiseau was notified by Michelin that he would keep his third star. Nevertheless, the food writer Francois Simon wrote in Le Figaro that Loiseau and his third star were "living on borrowed time."