Well, I don't really recommend you to find the book and actually read it. It's awful. The basic theses? Well, you can get an idea from this quote, for example: Speaking of the noseblleds, Robespierre suffered from: "What was the nature of this blood? Remembering a tendency to be affected by tuberculosis in the family, we first thought of hemoptysis. But we would have other testimonies of this, because those suffering from tuberculosis don't spit blood only during night. So, would it be wounds caused by face scratching or bites? We'd rather say it was a psychosomatic sort of epistaxis [i.e. nosebleeding], with a strong sexual and feminine conotation(*)." (translation to English is maelicia's)
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Date: 2009-10-21 12:50 pm (UTC)Well, you can get an idea from this quote, for example:
Speaking of the noseblleds, Robespierre suffered from: "What was the nature of this blood? Remembering a tendency to be affected by tuberculosis in the family, we first thought of hemoptysis. But we would have other testimonies of this, because those suffering from tuberculosis don't spit blood only during night. So, would it be wounds caused by face scratching or bites? We'd rather say it was a psychosomatic sort of epistaxis [i.e. nosebleeding], with a strong sexual and feminine conotation(*)."
(translation to English is maelicia's)