Historically yours brings together the organizers of large dinners with handpicked guests: the Countess Potocka who organized astonishing evenings in her mansion: "" the Maccabees' diner "" where all Paris of the Belle Epoque, men fascinated by her beauty and her authority - which went as far as the whip!
- then Salvador Dali and Gala who have organized many gala evenings, in their image: surreal, of course!
And an organizer of social dinners who had the idea in addition to filming them in his apartment at "" 93 Faubourg Saint Honoré "": Thierry Ardisson.
The guests :
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Ludmila Golycheva
, tour guide at the Hotel Potocki in Paris, which currently houses the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Contributed to Claude Leibenson's book
La Comtesse Potocka, a muse of the Belle Epoque
(Editions Lacurne)
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Dominique Bona
, from the Académie Française
Gala, the formidable muse
and
Une Vie de Gala
(Flammarion).
And for all those who want to know the menu in detail: Salvador Dali's book
Les diners de Gala,
published in 1973, has been reissued by Taschen editions.