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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 495,252 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is the 707th most popular writer (down from 647th in 2019), the 838th most popular biography from France (down from 761st in 2019) and the 115th 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 707 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrea Camilleri, Arto Paasilinna, Jack Vance, Maurice Denis, Max Jacob, and Louise Hay. After him are Agathias, Oliver Sacks, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Ivan Krylov, Nonnus, and Dalton Trumbo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 9. Before him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Paul Barras, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Hahnemann, and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski. After him are Georges Couthon, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Anthony of Saxony, and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden. Among people deceased in 1826, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 13. Before him are René Laennec, Philippe Pinel, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Joseph Proust, Stamford Raffles, and Elizabeth Alexeievna. After him are Levin August von Bennigsen, Frederica of Baden, Nikolay Karamzin, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Johann Elert Bode, and Louis-Gabriel Suchet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 838 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804), Maurice Denis (1870), Mary of Guise (1515), Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Bourvil (1917), and Max Jacob (1876). After him are Célestin Freinet (1896), Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944), Alain Aspect (1947), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), and Lorin Maazel (1930).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ranks 115. Before him are Marie de France (1101), Maurice Blanchot (1907), Bernard Gui (1261), Jean Froissart (1337), Maurice Denis (1870), and Max Jacob (1876). After him are Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Alain-René Lesage (1668), Alfred de Vigny (1797), Bernart de Ventadorn (1135), Edmond Rostand (1868), and Sidonius Apollinaris (430).

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