Good morning!
(Applause)
Good morning, everyone!
(Audience) Good morning!
Claudine and I are delighted to be with you this morning
to be the first one.
I left home when I was 13 to go to apprenticeship,
that was in 1949.
Actually, home was the restaurant where my mother was the chef,
I was already in that business.
In fact, there was 12 restaurants through the years in my family
and 12 of them owned by women,
I'm the first male to enter that business in my family.
So I went into apprenticeship from Lyon where my mother has her restaurant
to Bourg-en-Bresse, where I was [inaudible] a few miles away.
Prior to that, when we were about 8-9 years old,
my mother at [inaudible] restaurant so,
my brother and I before going to school walk with my mother to the market,
the Saint