2023-12-03 18:07:20
Hugo Desnoyer, butcher in Paris, 14th. SEBASTIEN SORIANO/Le Figaro
AN HOUR IN THE OFFICE – The butcher in the 14th arrondissement of Paris opens its doors at Le Figaro.
Hugo Desnoyer's butcher's shop. Rue du Docteur Blanche, Paris 14th, shortly before lunchtime. The conductor of the place is animated. He greets the customers. Further on, at the end of a cramped corridor, a small room of barely five square meters: his office. When he's not behind the counter or working on his chopping block. “Here is my little corner, slips Hugo Desnoyer, smiling. We can hold four but no more. But it’s enough to welcome a few friends.” Friends. The one who is sometimes nicknamed the “butcher to the stars” has a lot.
For years he went out a lot. He spent a lot of energy, especially at work, sometimes putting in twenty-hour days. “I really gave too much, today I need calm, he explains, pushing his glasses up on his head. I no longer get up at impossible times in the morning, for example.” If this endearing man with a deep outlook has given so much, there is at least one reason.
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In this small room…
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