Yes, thanks for the historic reference — that’s what I seem to remember too. I think it was 2 to 1. The way it goes, I believe, is that you may “give back” your macarons (stars), like Alain Senderens and Michel Bras did, but you cannot demand not to be included in the guide. The macaron system is a rating system, while inclusion in the guide is information. As a matter of fact you can’t really refuse to be mentioned in a guide of any sort, unless you negotiate the matter with the editors, with the possibility of going postal and threatening to sue if that doesn’t work.
It’s all there back in 1978 from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/07/archives/maxims-is-dropped-from-the-1978-michelin-guide-listed-in-kleber.html
Interesting!
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