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Metropolitan Diary
Snappy Driver
Dear Diary:
As an ad man in the 1960s, I used to regularly go to a restaurant called Le Chanteclair on East 49th Street between Fifth and Madison.
The place was adorned with car racing trophies and memorabilia, and the man who ran the front of the house was from France and always elegantly dressed.
Not long ago, I picked up a book at the library called “Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best.”
Turns out the elegant Frenchman at Le Chanteclair was René Dreyfus, the driver who beat Hitler’s best.
— Neil Fox
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html