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“The smile is second nature to some of us. We just assume that it is some kind of almost involuntary reaction to a real emotion. And therefore, we might expect it to be ever present and unchanging in the past. This books blows that out of the water. It really is the story of the changing nature of the smile in 18th-century France.” Read more...
Karen Harvey, Historian
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