# Anyone know about Louisette Bertholle?

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**Created:** [June 23, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-about-louisette-bertholle/626081 "2012-06-23T16:25:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![lew\_cody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@lew\_cody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lew_cody)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-about-louisette-bertholle/626081/1 "2012-06-23T16:25:00Z")

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The third author of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” has never been written about as much as Julia or Simcha, and no online source that I know of has either an obit or confirmation that she’s still alive–she’d likely be a centenarian. She might have fallen off the media radar if she later remarried and changed her name. Do any Dopers know more?

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**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-about-louisette-bertholle/626081/2 "2012-06-23T19:15:18Z")

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I know from Julia Child’s _My Life in France_ (what a truly wonderful book, by the way) that Louisette’s second marriage was to Comte Henri de Nalèche, but I was no more successful than you at poking around the internet for more info.