The Foul and the Fragrant
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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 |
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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
See also
- Aura seminalis
- Jonquille
- Miasma
- Microhistory
- Phlogiston
- J. J. Becher
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Joseph Priestley
- Chemical affinity
- Jeremy Shakerley (astronomer)
- Sympathism
- Parent-Duchâtelet
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