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-"THE IDEA OF writing a book about the perception of odors came to me as I was reading the memoirs of [[Jean-Noel Halle]], a member of the Societe Royale de Medecine under the ancien regime and the first incumbent of the chair of public hygiene established in Paris in 1794."--incipit+"THE IDEA OF writing a book about the perception of odors came to me as I was reading the memoirs of [[Jean-Noel Halle]], a member of the Societe Royale de Medecine under the ancien regime and the first incumbent of the chair of public hygiene established in Paris in 1794."--incipit ''[[The Foul and the Fragrant]]'' (1982) by Alain Corbin
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"THE IDEA OF writing a book about the perception of odors came to me as I was reading the memoirs of Jean-Noel Halle, a member of the Societe Royale de Medecine under the ancien regime and the first incumbent of the chair of public hygiene established in Paris in 1794."--incipit The Foul and the Fragrant (1982) by Alain Corbin

"So, to borrow Mary Douglas's formula, the "purity" of disinfection could wage successful battle against the "danger" of pollution."--introduction by Roy Porter

Caricature of human nose Illustration: Napoleon III nose caricatures from Schneegans's History of Grotesque Satire
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Le miasme et la jonquille: L'odorat et l'imaginaire social, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (1982) is a book by French historian Alain Corbin. It treats the history of odors, olfaction and deodorisation in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was translated as The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination.

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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."

Table of contents

  • 1. Air and the Threat of the Putrid 1 1
  • 2. The Extremes of Olfactory Vigilance 22
  • 3· Social Emanations 35
  • 4· Redefining the Intolerable 57
  • 5. The New Calculus of Olfactory Pleasure 71
  • 6. The Tactics of Deodorization 89
  • 7. Odors and the Physiology of the Social Order 1 1 I
  • 8. Policy and Pollution 128
  • 9· The Stench of the Poor 142
  • 10. Domestic Atmospheres 161
  • II. The Perfumes of Intimacy 176
  • 12. The Intoxicating Flask 200
  • 13· "Laughter in a Bead of Sweat" 211
  • 14· The Odors of Paris 222


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