Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure Finish:Stretched 'A Great Parochial Storm'

'A Great Parochial Storm'

27th March 1979

Print depicting the undertakers eating

View of the hill town of Padula

Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure Finish:Stretched 'A Great Parochial Storm'Alexandre Duval, French restaurant owner and society figure, 1900. Duval inheited a chain of cheap restaurants founded by his father, the Bouillons Duval, from which Alexandre got the nickname, the 'Prince de Bouillon'. He was known as a wit, a man of fashion, and a regular attendee at the most important theatrical premieres and social events. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1860 1920, 6th album,