Le Pavillon was a New York City restaurant that defined French food in the United States from 1941 to 1966.

During this time, Charles Masson Sr., co-founder of New York City's famed restaurant La Grenouille had worked under Henri Soulé in Le Pavillon.

[5] In his autobiography,[6] Jacques Pépin describes how he was first employed at Le Pavilion after emigrating to the US in 1959.

He found that Franey and the rest of the staff were underpaid and treated poorly by Soulé, who insisted that he was barely making ends meet, even though he would offer complimentary meals and wine to a large number of celebrity guests.

However, there was soon an exodus of the staff (Franey and Pépin moved to Howard Johnson's) and the restaurant never recovered.