BRILL (Psetta laevis), a flatfish closely related to the turbot, differing from it in having very small scales and no bony tuber cules in the skin. It abounds on parts of the British coast, and is only less favoured for the table than the turbot itself.
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French gastronomist, was born at Belley, France, on April 1,
and died in Paris on Feb. 2, 1826. In 1789 he was a deputy, in 1793 mayor of Belley. To escape proscription he fled from France to Switzerland, and thence to the United States. On the fall of Robespierre he returned to France, and in 1797 became a member of the court of cessation. He wrote various volumes on political economy and law, but his name is famous for his Physiolo gie du gout (1825) a witty compendium of the art of dining, of which a translation, The Physiology of Taste, was published, with introduction by Arthur Machen, in 1925.
