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SUMMARY:The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century Fran
 ce: the Saint-Aubins’ Livre des Culs - Colin Jones and Emily Richardson 
 (Queen Mary\, University of London)
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:The Saint-Aubins formed a dynasty of artists and craftsmen in 
 eighteenth-century France. The best-known of them is Gabriel\, who current
 ly has an international exhibition devoted to him (New York\, Paris). He a
 nd his brothers kept a number of sketch-books\, one of which\, owned by Wa
 ddesdon Manor\, is the subject of the talk. The _Livre de caricatures tant
  bonnes que mauvaises_ is largely the work of Charles-Germain de Saint-Aub
 in\, though it is in essence a collective work seemingly produced both by 
 and for what Antoine de Baecque has termed a 'society of laughers'. The br
 others are said to have referred to it as their _livre de culs_. Although 
 there are indeed some arses in the book – including some famous ones\, k
 nowledge of whose depiction would have ended the Saint-Aubins in the Basti
 lle – the characteristic of the work is its festive\, humorous and frequ
 ently satirical character. The kind of caricature and satire it exemplifie
 s is quite rare in France (England was different in this respect). In this
  paper\, we will seek to examine the work and to place it in the context o
 f French eighteenth-century medical\, philosophical and political debates 
 about laughter.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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