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JosephLark · 2017-09-22 · Original thread
The article actually mentions Bernard Loiseau, not Benoit Violier. Loiseau took his life after hearing rumors his restaurant would be demoted from three to two Michelin stars.

There was a book written about the Loiseau event (reads like it was supposed to be a biography at first, of which the suicide obviously overtook the narrative): The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Perfectionist-Life-Death-Haute-Cuisin...

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