?Please, come in.? Being a charlatan, or the question of trustworthy knowledge

IRINA PODGORNY; DANIEL GETHMANN

SCIENCE IN CONTEXT

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2020 vol. 33 p. 355 - 361

0269-8897

?Charlatan,? while a profession, meant something different in other linguistic contexts. Just across the border, in France, the journalist and writer Jean-Baptiste Gouriet (1774-1855) had published a compilation of the most famous charlatans that visited Paris from ancient times to the present day. In so doing, he specified that the term included the jugglers, jokers, jesters, operators, acrobats, crooks, swindlers, soothsayers, card-pullers, fortune-tellers and all the characters who have made themselves famous in the streets and public squares of Paris. Gouriet connected their stories to the history of theatre, entertainment, and illusion, but also to their use of the public space and their itinerant life (Gouriet Reference Gouriet1819).