Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Deputy in the National Assembly, Versailles, 1789 (1956). Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician who became a Deputy in the National Assembly after the French Revolution. He was forced to flee into exile amid the turmoil of the Revolution, before returning to France in 1797 under the Directory. He later became a prominent epicure and gastronome. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
