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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French lawyer, politician and culinary writer
This article is about the gastronome. For the cheese from Burgundy, see Brillat-Savarin cheese.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | |
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Posthumous portrait, 1848 | |
| Born | 2 April 1755 Belley, France |
| Died | 2 February 1826(1826-02-02) (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Notable works | Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste) |
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Aphorism IV, Physiologie du goût[1]
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃tɛlmbʁijasavaʁɛ̃]; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
Rising to modest eminence in the last years of France's Ancien Régim
