The Smile Revolution : In Eighteenth-Century Paris.
Jones CBE, Colin.
The Smile Revolution : In Eighteenth-Century Paris. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (246 pages)
Cover -- THE SMILE REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PARIS -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1: The Old Regime of Teeth -- Louis XIV's non-smile -- Smiles under strict control -- The power of royal example -- 2: The Smile of Sensibility -- Regency glimpses of the smile -- 'Smiles on the mouth and tears in the eyes' -- Visualizing the smile of sensibility -- 3: Cometh the Dentist -- The Pont-Neuf tooth-pulling carnival -- A tale of two dentists -- Enlightened Parisian teeth -- 4: The Making of a Revolution -- Fauchard's heirs -- The entrepreneurialism of the 'dentiste sensible' -- Meanwhile, in Versailles . . . -- 5: The Transient Smile Revolution -- The lady artist and the denture-maker -- Smiles under suspicion -- Lavaterian twilight -- 6: Beyond the Smile Revolution -- False harbingers -- Gothic grimaces -- Disappearing dentistry . . . -- . . . Vanishing smiles -- Postscript: Towards the Twentieth-Century Smile Revolution -- NOTES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- POSTSCRIPT -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Index.
The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern western civilization.
9780191024849
Paris (France) -- Antiquities.
Paris (France) -- Ethnic relations.
Paris (France) -- History.
Electronic books.
DC711.J664 2014eb
944
The Smile Revolution : In Eighteenth-Century Paris. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (246 pages)
Cover -- THE SMILE REVOLUTION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PARIS -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1: The Old Regime of Teeth -- Louis XIV's non-smile -- Smiles under strict control -- The power of royal example -- 2: The Smile of Sensibility -- Regency glimpses of the smile -- 'Smiles on the mouth and tears in the eyes' -- Visualizing the smile of sensibility -- 3: Cometh the Dentist -- The Pont-Neuf tooth-pulling carnival -- A tale of two dentists -- Enlightened Parisian teeth -- 4: The Making of a Revolution -- Fauchard's heirs -- The entrepreneurialism of the 'dentiste sensible' -- Meanwhile, in Versailles . . . -- 5: The Transient Smile Revolution -- The lady artist and the denture-maker -- Smiles under suspicion -- Lavaterian twilight -- 6: Beyond the Smile Revolution -- False harbingers -- Gothic grimaces -- Disappearing dentistry . . . -- . . . Vanishing smiles -- Postscript: Towards the Twentieth-Century Smile Revolution -- NOTES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- POSTSCRIPT -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Index.
The story of how we learned to smile. A unique and untold story about a facial expression at the heart of modern western civilization.
9780191024849
Paris (France) -- Antiquities.
Paris (France) -- Ethnic relations.
Paris (France) -- History.
Electronic books.
DC711.J664 2014eb
944