What is the "smile revolution" that happened in Paris in France in the 18th century?

ByEhsan Khakbaz H.

If there is something of happiness or fun, in most cases it will make you laugh at others without being told that to others "I hope you can laugh." However, in Paris in the 18th century, "laughing" is said to be a donty act, everyone seems to have lived while hiding their smile.

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In 1787, on the wall of the Louvre museumElisabeth-Louise-Vige-le-BlancSelf-portrait of the person was hanging. This is a picture depicting how LeBlancers are young girls, as it is a painting in which "Virgin Mary" and "a mother-of-nature" idealized by a new middle class are evoked. did. However, at the time it was exhibited in the Louvre, it was not possible for Parisian citizens to understand the merit of this painting at all, and when passing through this painting, they passed through in an unnaturally hasty manner, they were swayed by not seeing It seems that he got only a strange response.

What made Parisian people do so, LeBlanc's self-portrait was smiling at his mouth and this was a big problem.


From this episode we can see how people at the time felt resistance to "laughing", but I investigated and analyzed how "how did such citizens of Paris regain their natural smile" He is Colin Jones. Mr. Jones sets his own research results to "Smile Revolution"The Guardian has briefly summarized the flow from the book to the Parisian citizen getting back to smile.

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In France in the 18th century, most people belonging to the privileged class had made a lot of decayed teeth in their mouths due to too much sugar. Also, it seems that "laughing" was captured by the witness that it is generally evidence of being a lowly born birth, or a person in a state of mental confusion.

Also, it can be understood that even though the formation of languages ​​was seen, "laughing" was not regarded as a very good thing. In French "Smile" is written as "Sourire". It is understood that this is a word born from a place where "sous (lower)" and "rire (laugh)" are combined and it is "laughing" a person whose status is lower than yourself. Actually, in Paris at that time people smiled only when they laughed at low-ranking people, they said they did not smile. Besides that, there was also the aspect that "Laughing loud and making a loud noise" implied "something dissatisfied with society and administration" at that time, which made it impossible to smile unnecessarily.

From the negative cultural influence on these smiles, until the 18th century even the Palazzo Versailles (the place that was the center of the French power at the time), everyone stayed with a blank face with fear of laughing, Mr. Jones insists. Considering the fact that people of the privileged class had made many decayed teeth in their mouths and the negative perception of "laughter" at that time, the upper class people gathering at the Palace of Versailles tightly closed their mouths, It is hard to imagine that desperately trying to penetrate expressionlessly.

ByCamilo Rueda López

In France in 1789French RevolutionIt will happen and the old monarchy will collapse, but in the 1760's the prestige of the Palace of Versailles had already begun to fall gradually. Gradually, the upper-class men in Paris started working in the city instead of going to the Palace of Versailles, "smiles" gradually spreading in contact with the general public, smiling faces with friends , It is said that customs have gradually become acquiring citizenship.

Also, at the time of the 18th century, women were banned from showing teeth in public places,Susan NekelYaMary · Therese · JoffranIt was also found that women of the upper class such as the upper class raised their mouth corners when they greeted guests and was showing a smile, and the fact that smiles laughing steadily and naturally among the people of the upper class have penetrated Has become clear.

"This is a new culture on emotion, meaning that we have begun to evaluate emotional expression as an individual's essential human nature," The Guardian commented.


Ancient bones can dig up from the ground and do DNA examination, but since the information on what kind of expressions they were expressing does not remain in DNA, chasing this change is a very difficult task .

Mr. Vic Gutrell wrote "City of Laughter"I published a book called. This book is based on the satire boom popular in London during Georgian dynasty,RowlandsonYaGillrayI've posted hundreds of "satirical politiciasy police power satirical caricatures" written by caricatures.


On the other hand, Mr. Jones tried to follow the change in facial expressions of people, so he was forced to think about the state of Paris in the 18th century with less material than Mr. Gartler. Mr. Jones is a French genre painter in the 18th centuryJean-Baptist · GleesI carefully examined the state of the time from the paintings of the time, and also made extensive attention to the literary texts of the time and conducted surveys.

For example, how the citizens of Paris are British writersSamuel Richardsonof"Clarissa(1748) ", he pointed out that this beautiful smile of the heroine caught the hearts of citizens, rather than being popular from a successful plot. Besides, Rousseau's short story "New Eloise"It is said that an innocent girl who tears while laughing cheered everyone's heart" about the reason why thousands of women at that time were bible. Although it is a little difficult to prove that "smile" that appeared in the world of literature as it was reflected in the Parisian citizen is a little difficult, it is a little difficult, but the fact that "smile" is an important element became popular in the 18th century and that Paris It is not possible to deny that there was some relationship between what was recognized as "smile" and what was recognized.

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Mr. Jones points out the new dentistry that appeared in the 18th century to prove that "smile" came out in Paris. In the dental department of the former system until then, when I became a tooth decay I went to Ponnuff and had my tooth pulled out of the tooth pulling out a plaque. However, in the 1720's Pierre Faucher, also known as the father of modern dentistry, opened a well-equipped clinic room, so that modern treatment from pre-dental dental treatment that just pierced the decayed tooth with pliers It began to be done.

As a result, in the middle of the 18th century, the dentist in Paris was not just a professional, "It was a wonderful occupation to play a role like a midwife who can give patients a new socialization" smile " I am reading the change of thinking about the "smile" of the people of the Paris at that time from a strange way.