The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

by Alain Corbin

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674311752

ISBN13:9780674311756

Release Date:October 1986

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:307 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

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