Grimod De La Reynière
Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (20 November r September?1758 in Paris – 25 December 1837) was a lawyer by qualification who acquired fame during the reign of Napoleon for his sensual and public gastronomic lifestyle. Son of Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, he inherited the family fortune on the death of his father, a '' fermier général'', in 1793. He was a member of the Société du Caveau. Biography Though his father built a stylish house in Paris with a garden that looked onto the '' bosquets'' of the Champs-Élysées and kept a great table, the younger Grimod had been born with deformed hands and was kept out of sight, a circumstance that developed his biting wit and dark sense of humour. The younger Grimod de La Reynière began his public career on his return from studies in Lausanne by collaborating in the review ''Journal des théâtres'' in 1777–78, continuing to write reviews of theatre, some of which he published himself, as ''Le Censeur Dra ...
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