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Christian Millau and Henri Gault, behind him at left, in a Paris restaurant in 1977 to promote a new edition of their "Gault and Millau" restaurant guide.
Jacques Langevin/Associated Press; Daniel Janin/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images, 2004
Christian Millau
Died on August 5, 2017 at age 88
Mr. Millau was a founder of the influential Gault-Millau restaurant guide, which led the way in making nouvelle cuisine a global force in the early 1970s.
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