Lionel Poilâne

Lionel Poilâne (Paris, June 10th 1945 - with broad of Cancale, October 31st 2002) was a Boulanger French of international repute.

With the beginning of the year 1930, his/her father, Pierre-Leon Poilâne, had created a bakery with 8, rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris and famous “the Poilâne bread”.

As of the end of the Years 1950, his/her Lionel son was itself become baker and endeavoured to develop the family small company, in particular by opening a second establishment in the 15th district of the capital. Its success and the increasing notoriety of its breads, in particular in the Anglo-Saxon world and in Asia, enabled him to constitute a solid distribution network, to make build, in the Années 1980, a Manufacture with Bièvres, in Paris region, and to be established with London.

Ransom of this success, the bread Lionel Poilâne is the subject of copies, sometimes shocking. But the amateurs do not seem to be mistaken there. In any case, a gastronomical critic like Paul Chambrillon, deceased in 2000, swore only by him and the large cook Joel Robuchon, on several occasions, said all publicly it although he thought of his manufacture.

At the time of its disappearance in company of its Iréna wife following an accident of helicopter to broad of Cancale, in Brittany, Lionel Poilâne had become a personality of All-Paris, with the recognized talents.

It is his/her oldest daughter, Apollonia, which took again in hand the management of the firm inherited his/her parents.

Lionel Poilâne left several works, in particular a Guide of the bread amateur (1981) and a Guide Poilâne of the alive and commercial traditions (1989).

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Bakery Poilâne

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