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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin facts for kids
This page is about the gastronome Brillat de Savarin. For the cheese from Burgundy, see Brillat-Savarin cheese.
Quick facts for kids Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | |
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Posthumous portrait, 1848 | |
| Born | 2 April 1755 Belley, France |
| Died | 2 February 1826 (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
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ( (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 Régime, Brillat-Savarin had to escape into exile when the Reign of Terror began in 1793.
