Henri Soulé (1903–1966)[1] was the French-American proprietor of Le Pavillon[2] and La Côte Basque[3] restaurants in New York City.
[4] He is credited with having "trained an entire generation of French chefs and New York restaurant owners.
[7] At the request of the French government, he came to the United States to run the Le Restaurant Français[8] at the 1939 World's Fair.
Soule used hired criminals to physically threaten his staff when they demanded increased pay.
However, Soulé could not keep his employees from departing en masse for other employment, which they did: Le Pavilion shut down shortly thereafter.