Fouquet's heritage designation listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage
History
Fouquet's brasserie was founded in 1899 by Louis Fouquet. He called it after his French last name, "Fouquet", and added the "'s" to give it a trendy style, although he was born and raised in France.
Since 1990, the main room is listed as a historical French monument (Inventaire des Monuments Historiques).
In 1998, Fouquet's was purchased by Groupe Barrière. Then, the family owned French group created Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris by acquiring 6 buildings around the brasserie. Groupe Barrière inaugurated other Fouquet's restaurants, in France (Cannes, Toulouse, Courchevel, La Baule, Enghien-les-Bains), Switzerland (Montreux), Morocco (Marrakesh), and the United Arab Emirates (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi).In March 2019, the restaurant was severely damaged during yellow vest protests. The restaurant Fouquet's Paris reopened a few month later for Bastille day, on July 14, 2019, identical as it was before.
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