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Chef and restaurateur Michel Richard, long a culinary icon in Washington, D.C., died Saturday following a stroke he suffered Tuesday, according to published reports. He was 68.
Known for his culinary creativity and bawdy wit, Richard was born in Pabu in the French region of Brittany and moved to the Champagne region at age 14 to train as a pastry chef. Three years later he moved to Paris and worked at the pastry shop Gaston Lenotre.
He relocated to Los Angeles in 1974 to open a Lenotre shop there and went on to open his own eponymous pastry shop, then Citrus restaurant. He opened...