Brillat-Savarin

Brillat-Savarin, ANTHELME, French gastronomist, born at Belley, 1st April 1755, was a deputy in 1789, and mayor of Belley in 1793; he resided for a time in Switzerland, and afterwards in America, where he played in the orchestra of a theatre in New York; and from 1796 until his death, 2d February 1826, he was a member of the Court of Cassation. Shortly before this event, appeared his Physiologie du Goût (1825), an elegant and witty compendium of the art of dining, to which he brought the experience of half a century. It has been repeatedly republished and translated; the latest English form is A Hand- book of Gastronomy, with 52 etchings by Lalauze (1884).