BRILL  , the name given to a

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