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128 - GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE (Alexandre). *Peu de chose*. A tribute…
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GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE (Alexandre). *Peu de chose*. A tribute to the Académie de Lyon. Neuchâtel and Paris, Belin, Desenne & Petit, 1788. In-8, 64 pp. Half-shagreen in havana, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt title (19th-century binding). A collection of miscellaneous writings which the famous gastronome dedicated to the Royal Academy of Lyon; he had opened a shop in that city selling groceries, drugs and perfumes following his two years of exile, under a lettre de cachet, in a convent near Nancy. He was elected a member of this Academy that same year. Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1758–1837) was a French writer, theatre critic and gastronome, regarded as one of the founders of modern gastronomy. Author of the influential *Almanach des Gourmands* (1803–1812) and the *Manuel des Amphitryons* (1808), he helped to codify the art of dining, gastronomic criticism and culinary practices. A brilliant and provocative mind, famous for his hoaxes, he played a key role in the emergence of gastronomic literature in the early 19th century.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 1 of 4 – Nos. 1 to 549
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Auction time 08/19/2026 at 11:00 AM
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