biography
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Brillat-Savarin, (Jean) Anthelme
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pronunciation:
[breeyah savarĩ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1755–1826)
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| biography:
| French politician, gastronome, and writer, born in Belley, EC France. He was a deputy in 1789, and Mayor of Belley in 1793. During the French Revolution he took refuge in Switzerland, and afterwards in America. His Physiologie du goût (1825, The Physiology of Taste), an elegant and witty compendium of the art of dining, has been repeatedly republished and translated; an English form is A Handbook of Gastronomy, with 52 etchings by Lalauze (1884). |
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