Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

French lawyer, politician and writer

Died when: 70 years 307 days (850 months)
Star Sign: Aries

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation: ?[??~ ?~t?lm b?ija sava??~]; 1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of The Physiology of Taste (Physiologie du Goût), gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin.

Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."

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