Author: [HURTAUT (Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas) and Pierre-Jean Le Corvaisier]:
Title: L'Art de Peter, Essai Theori-Physique et Methodique, A l'usage des Personnes constipées, des Personnages graves & austeres, des Dames mélancoliques, & de touos deux qui sont esclaves duprejugé. Suivi de l'Histoire de Pet-en-l'Air & de la Reine des Amazones, ou l'on trouve l'origine des Vuidangeurs. Nouvelle Edition. Augmentée de la Société des Frances-Péteurs, pour ceux qui désireont y être initiés.
Description: En Westphalie, Chez Florent-Q, rue Pet-en-Guele, au Soufflet. 1776. Page [112] in this edition is a drop-title for La Société des Francs-péteurs, written by Pierre-Jean Le Corvaisier, which continues to page 216. First published in 1751 in Wesfphalia, with only 108 pages, and it has probably never been out of print, or reprint, since that date. Hurtaut (1719 - 1791) was allegedly the son of a horse trader, and his upwardly mobile aspirations led him to the Ecole Militaire in Paris, where he taught Latin. The Ecole opened in 1750, so he must have composed this work while he was teaching young soldiers-to-be, and they would no doubt have derived some juvenile enjoyment from the knowledge of their teacher's interests. One gentleman was said to have been so accomplished in l'Art de Peter, that he could produce the tune of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, from the designated apeture, an achievement that smacks of art. In 1775, Hurtaut published a very useful book, Dictionnaire des mots homonymes de la langue française. One of the earliest treatises published on the subject was Hippocratis medicorum omnium principis, de Flatibus Liber, ab Adriano Alemano Sorceensi apud Parisios doctore Medico, commentariis illustratus, published in 1557.

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