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“He died without regaining consciousness at 9.42 p.m. on the evening of 5 August 1858, and the doctor officially recorded the cause of death as melaena (a stomach ulcer) and serious apoplexy (a stroke). He was forty-eight years old.”

He packed a lot into those 48 years.

This was a sad sentence to read… I admit I wasn’t ready for it…

“Unfortunately, with only five months to live, Alexis was never able to repeat this success.”

😢

This guy really did live an amazing life. I a surprised more people don’t know about him. They could definitely make a good movie, or maybe multi part Netflix series out of his life story.

OK… this is the French Chef who invented the classic English dish… Spotted Dick. You can’t make this stuff up. 😉