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Katherine Ashenburg, Katherine Ashenburg
368 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781846681011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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'I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.' So wrote Napoleon to Josephine in an age when body odour was considered an aphrodisiac. In stark contrast, the Romans used to bath for hours each day. Ashenburg's investigation of history's ambivalen...
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Katherine Ashenburg, Katherine Ashenburg
368 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781846681011
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
'I return to Paris in five days. Stop washing.' So wrote Napoleon to Josephine in an age when body odour was considered an aphrodisiac. In stark contrast, the Romans used to bath for hours each day. Ashenburg's investigation of history's ambivalen...
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