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Bailli of Chaine des Rotisseurs-Mombasa chapter, Shabnam Nayer inducts Vice Conseillier of Chaine des Rotisseurs-Nairobi, Manish Nambiar. (Photo: Thorn Mulli)

In 1661, Nicolas Fouquet, finance minister to the capricious French king Louis XIV, threw a lavish banquet at inauguration of his chateau which was deemed the greatest in France.

The culinary extravagance displayed at the glorious estate at Vaux-le-Vicomte so enraged the king who deemed it too ostentatious that he inferred a misappropriation of the Crown’s money and Fouquest was arrested and imprisoned for life.

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