The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
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Le miasme et la jonquille: L'odorat et l'imaginaire social, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles is a book by French historian Alain Corbin. It treats the history of smells in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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- "In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells - from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools - exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
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See also
- Aura seminalis
- Jonquille
- Miasma
- Microhistory
- Phlogiston
- J. J. Becher
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Joseph Priestley
- Chemical affinity
- Jeremy Shakerley (astronomer)
- Sympathism
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