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Françoise Fillioux
French chef (1865–1925) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Françoise Fillioux (or Filloux,[n 1] 2 September 1865 – 22 October 1925), known as "La Mère Fillioux" or "La Mère Filloux", was a French chef, proprietor of a famous restaurant in Lyon. Among her successors was Eugénie Brazier who worked in her kitchen as a young woman and continued her traditions of Lyonnaise cookery.
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