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The Foul & the Fragrant - Odor & the French Social Imagination (Paper) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Foul & the Fragrant - Odor & the French Social Imagination (Paper)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.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 July 1988
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Sociology: Customs & Traditions | European History
- ISBN 13: 9780674311763 ISBN 10: 0674311760
Full description for The Foul & the Fragrant - Odor & the French Social Imagination (Paper)
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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