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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1755 - 1826

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃tɛlm bʁija savaʁɛ̃], (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin has received more than 457,105 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is the 648th most popular writer (up from 669th in 2019), the 763rd most popular biography from France (down from 749th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular French Writer.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer, politician, and writer who is most famous for his work "The Physiology of Taste" in which he discusses the history and philosophy of food.

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Among writers, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 648 out of 5,755Before him are Andrea Camilleri, William McMaster Murdoch, Robert E. Howard, Witold Gombrowicz, Theodore the Studite, and Bert Hellinger. After him are Columella, Frontinus, William Saroyan, Oliver Sacks, Georges Perec, and Dimitrie Cantemir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 10Before him are Samuel Hahnemann, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Barras, James Parkinson, and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. After him are François Joseph Lefebvre, Georges Couthon, Anthony of Saxony, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Giovanni Battista Viotti, and Natalia Alexeievna. Among people deceased in 1826, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 12Before him are Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, John VI of Portugal, Joseph Proust, Elizabeth Alexeievna, and Stamford Raffles. After him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Frederica of Baden, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Nikolay Karamzin, Levin August von Bennigsen, and Johann Elert Bode.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 763 out of 6,011Before him are Philippe Petit (1949), Georges Rouault (1871), Robert Hossein (1927), Louis, Prince of Condé (1530), Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (1709), and Marina Vlady (1938). After him are Frontinus (30), Félix Guattari (1930), Jean Nouvel (1945), Roscellinus (1050), Georges Perec (1936), and Theobald I of Navarre (1201).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 103Before him are Ausonius (310), Eugène Sue (1804), Pierre Loti (1850), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Maurice Blanchot (1907), and Edmond Rostand (1868). After him are Frontinus (30), Georges Perec (1936), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Raymond Queneau (1903), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), and Antoine François Prévost (1697).