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L'art de péter
Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut
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Written in the manner of a learned medical treatise, this eighteenth-century satire turns bodily embarrassment into a subject for elaborate classification. Hurtaut applies scholarly seriousness to flatulence, exposing the absurdity of social pretensions along the way. Its mock science invites readers to laugh at conventions surrounding dignity, manners and the human body.
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