Fabrice Desvignes (), born in 1973, is a French

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, and winner of the 2007

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.Bremner, Charles. Tourres, Marie. ''The Times'' (January 29, 2007)
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/ref> Desvignes is head chef at the

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(

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) after having been a second chef at the Présidence du Sénat in

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Desvignes's prize-winning dish was a ''volaille de Bresse truffée'' (truffled Bresse chicken). During the course of the contest, a late delivery of two metal containers to Desvignes became the subject of controversy, with allegations made of cheating by smuggling precooked ingredients into the final. A contest director responded that the containers were delivered to Desvignes two minutes before he started work because snow delayed their overnight arrival, and these contained silverware and ''

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'', which were not prohibited. He is the son of the French chef Annie Desvignes.

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