A Laugh a Year
Jonathan Beckman: The Smile, 18 June 2015
The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
by Colin Jones.
Oxford, 231 pp., £22.99, September 2014,978 0 19 871581 8 Show More
by Colin Jones.
Oxford, 231 pp., £22.99, September 2014,
“... authorities had cast a shadow of disapproval over its diminutive, the smile (le sourire). Aristotle may have noted that laughing distinguished mankind from the rest of the animal kingdom, but that didn’t mean it was to be encouraged. ‘The passion of Laughter is nothyng but a suddaine Glory arising from the suddaine Conception of some Eminency in ... ”