Christian Millau was born Christian Dubois-Millot on December 28, 1928 in Paris, France. After taking courses at Sciences Po, a university for political science, he decided on a career in journalism. He worked at Opéra, a literary journal, and as a deputy editor of Paris-Presse, an afternoon newspaper. He and Henri Gault wrote a Paris guidebook entitled Guide Julliard de Paris. This lead to a series of guidebooks. In 1969, they started Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau, a monthly magazine filled with restaurant reviews. In 1972, the guide was also published in book form. They sold the guide to the magazine Le Point in 1983.
Millau wrote several books including Paris Told Me: The Fifties, End of an Era; Greetings from the Gulag: Secrets of a Family; A Lover's Gastronomic Dictionary; and Rude Journal: 2011-1928. Galloping with the Hussars: In the Literary Whirlwind of the Fifties received the French Academy's grand prize for biography in 1999. He died on August 5, 2017 at the age of 88.
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