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BRILL

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRILL , the name given to a See also:

flat-See also:fish (Paella laevis, or Rhombus laevis) which is a See also:species closely related to the turbot, differingfrom it in having very small scales, being smaller in See also:size, having no bony tubercules in the skin, and being reddish in See also:colour. It abounds on parts of the See also:British See also:coast, and is only less favoured for the table than the turbot itself. BRILLAT-SAVARIN, ANTHELME (1755—1826), See also:French gastronomist, was See also:born at See also:Belley, See also:France, on the 1st of See also:April 1755. In 1789 he was a See also:deputy, in 1793 See also:mayor of Belley. To See also:escape proscription he fled from France to See also:Switzerland, and went thence to the See also:United States, where he played in the See also:orchestra of a New See also:York See also:theatre. On the fall of See also:Robespierre he returned to France, and in 1797 became a member of the See also:court of cassation. He wrote various volumes on See also:political See also:economy and See also:law, but his name is famous for his Physiologic du See also:gout, a compendium of the See also:art of dining. Many See also:editions of this See also:work have been published. Brillat-Savarin died in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:February 1826.

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