Sodexo: Pierre Bellon, the ogre of canteens, is dead

IIt was enough for him to get angry, which was not uncommon, for his Marseille accent to reappear. Impossible to hide it: despite nearly six decades spent in Paris and an incursion as a teenager near Lyon, Pierre Bellon was a Mediterranean, a real, jovial and rough at the same time, who liked to play the naive and could take away as hard as the mistral can blow. Died on January 31, 2022 at the age of 92, he had above all had flair when, in the 1960s, his HEC diploma in his pocket, he refused to join the family business, founded in 1892 and specialized in refueling of Marseille-Algiers boats. He is then convinced that decolonization will harm this business.

With the 100,000 francs given by his father, he prefers to launch his pro…