Carême

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 765

Carême, MARIA ANTONIN, chef de cuisine and author, born in 1784 in Paris, where he died in 1833, wrote Les Déjeuners de l'Empereur Napoléon, La Cuisine Française, and other works connected with his craft. As Talleyrand's cook, he played an important part at the Congress of Vienna.

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