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Fictions médicales au XVIIIe siècle

Fictions médicales au XVIIIe siècle: l’efficace de la forme dans Abdeker, ou l’Art de conserver la beauté

Alexandre Wenger, Université de Genève

Volume 16, no. 4, July 2004

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ABSTRACT

Un jour, César Birotteau flanait sur les boulevards parisiens. « Parmi quelques livres a six sous étalés dans une manne à terre, ses yeux furent saisis par ce titre jaune de poussiere: Abdeker, au l’art de conserver la beauté.

Other ECF articles on the topic of “Health and Illness” include:

Shocked Sensibility: The Nerves, the Will, and Altered States in Sade’s L’Histoire de Juliette
by SEAN QUINLAN (ECF 25.3, Spring 2013)

The Body of Her Work, the Work of Her Body: Accounting for the Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
by CYNTHIA RICHARDS (ECF 21.4, Summer 2009)

Biography as Autopsy in William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
by ANGELA MONSAM (ECF 21.1, Fall 2008)

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