Synopsis of El arte de tirarse pedos
It is in the social world where fart can have its best developments, whether it is to start a conversation, to shut up a tiring fellow guest or as a triumphal exit in a dialectic dispute. We must be clear: farting is an act of existential affirmation only within the reach of those who have conquered their freedom beyond social prejudices.
Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut
Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut (Paris, 1719 - 1791). He worked as a Latin teacher in the Military School and published his first book in 1748, Le Voyage d'Aniers. Interested in the mysteries of the human body, he devoted several books to this subject, among them L'Art de péter and the Essai de médecine sur le flux menstruel, parodying treatises on medicine. He was also a historian and member of the "Société du bout du banc", one of the most famous literary salons of the 18th century.
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