Paul Bocuse, the most celebrated French chef of the postwar era and a leading figure in the pathbreaking culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine, died on Saturday. He was 91.His family announced his death in a statement. French news organizations said he died in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, his birthplace, near Lyon, home of the renowned L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges, his three-star restaurant.Mr. Bocuse emerged as the first among a brilliant band of chefs who developed a modernized version of classic French cooking in the late 1960s and early '70s, cheered on by Henri Gault and Christian Millau, the publishers of the influential Gault-Millau Guide.Following the lead of Fernand Point, the spiritual father of nouvelle cuisine and a mentor to many of its pioneers, Mr. Bocuse shaped a style of cooking at the restaurant that stressed fresh ingredients, lighter sauces, unusual flavor combinations and relentless innovation that, in his case, rested on a solid mastery of classic technique.This item has been discovered as part of inheritances or collections.

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