Le Pétomane

Le Pétomane (, ) was the stage name of the French flatulist ( professional farter ) and entertainer Joseph Pujol ( June 1, 1857 – 1945 ).

Le Pétomane ca 1890

Le Pétomane left an enduring legacy and has inspired a number of artistic works.

In addition, Le Pétomane was added to David Lee's 2007 reworked revival of the 1953 Broadway play Can-Can, which had originally been written by Abe Burroughs and Cole Porter.

Los Angeles-based Sherbourne Press published Jean Nohain and F. Caradec's Le Pétomane as a small hardcover English language edition in 1967.

Comics artist Lee Marrs includes a short visual biography of Le Pétomane in her 1976 comic The Compleat Fart and Other Body Emissions.

Ricky Jay discusses Le Pétomane in his book Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women.

Jim Dawson included a chapter on Le Pétomane in his book Who Cut the Cheese?

( Ten Speed Press, 1999 ) and a chapter on the various films about Le Pétomane in Blame It on the Dog ( 2006 ).

The Baby Killers, a 2010 steampunk novel by Jay Lake from PS Publishing recasts Le Pétomane as a French secret agent.

In 1979 Ian MacNaughton made a short humorous film, written by Galton and Simpson called Le Pétomane, based on Pujol's story and starring veteran comic actor Leonard Rossiter.

The 1998 documentary Le Pétomane by Igor Vamos examines Joseph Pujol's place in history through archival films ( none of which actually include him ), historical documents, photographs, recreations and fake or tongue-in-cheek interviews.

Other appearances include Le Pétomane: Parti Avec Le Vent ( Le Pétomane: Gone With The Wind ), a 2005 short film based on Pujol's life, and in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film Moulin Rouge!

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

* Le Pétomane 1857-1945 by Jean Nohain and F. Caradec ; translated by Warren Tute.

* Le Pétomane 1857-1945 by Jean Nohain and F. Caradec ; translated by Warren Tute.

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The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

Homages were paid worldwide and even some of Le Corbusier's worst artistic enemies, such as the painter Salvador Dalí, recognised his importance ( Dalí sent a floral tribute ).

In 1412, he paid tribute to Emperor Yong Le.

Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at the National Front ( France ) | Front National's annual tribute to Joan of Arc in Paris ( 1 May 2007 )

On April 21, 2011, Revive Da Live Big Band held a tribute show for Elam at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.

But more significant, perhaps, was the tribute paid by Le Temps, the leading Parisian paper:

French author Honore de Balzac dedicated his novel Le Pere Goriot to Saint-Hilaire, " as a tribute of admiration for his labors and his genius.

The song " Hot Topic " on Le Tigre's self-titled debut pays tribute to dozens of female visual artists, musicians, writers, feminists and others who have inspired them.

Due to its portrayal of psychologically-derived alternative realities, it has often been described as Le Guin's tribute to Philip K. Dick.

Blanc has the nickname Le Président, which was given to him following his stint at Marseille in tribute to his leadership skills.

It was built as a tribute to Schuppan's 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans victory and 1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship title.

SsangYong Motor Company, which had become the owner of Panther Westwinds, made a concept car called the SsangYong Solo 3 as a tribute to the original Solo and Solo 2, as well as a racing version called the SsangYong Solo Le Mans.

Le Bon has since said that " Shame " is the first part of a trilogy of songs written as a tribute to Miles, the other songs being " Ordinary World " and " Out of My Mind ".

Bembeya Jazz National ’ s most ambitious album, Regard Sur Le Passe, released in 1968, was a musical tribute to the memory of Samory Touré, who founded a Mande conquest state in much of what is now northern Guinea in 1870, and who became a nationalist emblem following 1958.

While Grothendieck lived in Chambon, he attended the Collège Cévenol ( now known as the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International ), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists.

" Le Monde Diplomatique's editor, Ignacio Ramonet's, expression of " the one-way thought " ( la pensée unique ) became slang against neoliberal policies and the Washington consensus.

Le Petit Cénacle soon gained a reputation for extravagance and eccentricity, but also for being a unique refuge from society.

Nijinsky's unique talent showed in Fokine's pieces such as Le Pavillon d ' Armide ( music by Nikolai Tcherepnin ), Cleopatra ( music by Anton Arensky and other Russian composers ) and a divertissement La Fête.

For example, Sam Loyd devised the problem: " Construct a game which ends with black delivering discovered checkmate on move four " ( published in Le Sphinx, 1866 ; the solution is 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 h5 3. Kg3 h4 + 4. Kg4 d5 #); while all White moves are unique ( see Beauty in chess problems below ), the Black ones aren't. Black mating on move 5 by change to knight.

Along with many other RFC and French combat aircraft, the Nieuport 17 utilized a unique arrangement of Le Prieur rockets mounted obliquely to the interplane struts, and designed for " stand off " balloon attacks.

During the last months of his life Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt made a documentary film about him entitled Constant, Avant Le Départ (" Before Departure "), which features unique footage of Constant working on his last oil painting Le Piège ( The Trap ).

According to Le Sage's theory, an isolated body is subjected to drag if it is in motion relative to the unique isotropic frame of the ultramundane flux ( i. e., the frame in which the speed of the ultramundane corpuscles is the same in all directions ).

* Laurent Martin, Le prix unique du livre 1981 – 2006.

A unique museum where Le Redoutable ( first French Nuclear submarine, launched in the 60s ) is the main attraction.

It is not however, a mere fictionalization of any real country, but rather one imagined with its own unique characteristics and history, distilled from Le Guin's personal interpretation and reaction to historical events.

It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote ( 1900 ), Coppélia ( 1901 ), Swan Lake ( 1901 ), La fille mal gardée ( 1903 ), Giselle ( 1911 ), Le Corsaire ( 1912 ) and La Bayadère ( 1917 ).

All are coupes, and will only be available in a unique color known as Sarthe Silver, named in honour of the Circuit de la Sarthe, where Le Mans is run.

To save product development costs, it was decided that while the newest GP would have a unique bodyshell of its own, the car would use the basic chassis and drivetrain from the A-body intermediates ( Tempest, Le Mans and GTO ), in much the same manner Ford created the original Mustang in 1964 using the basic chassis and drivetrain from the compact Ford Falcon.

When her parents returned to Lebanon in the late 1940s, she was sent to school at the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International, a unique secondary school in Haute-Loire, France, which had been founded by Protestant pacifists and social justice activists ten years earlier in 1938.

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* Marcel Déat, Le Parti unique, Paris, Aux Armes de France, 183 pages, 1943.

Trocmé was a catalyst whose efforts led to Le Chambon and surrounding villages becoming a unique haven in Nazi-occupied France.

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In 1967 he published his best-known work, Le Savon, translated as Soap ( 1969 ), a long prose poem that, in the words of The Times " is unique precisely because, and often very humorously, it exhausts the topic of the word and the thing.

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