The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth Century Paris

by Colin Jones and Colin Jones CBE

Book Overview

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which prevailed in western Europe until then, smiling was quite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019871582X
• ISBN13: 9780198715825
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"