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“... thumping doses of purgatives. The point emerges clearly from Gregory de Rocher’s translation of Laurent Joubert’s Popular Errors, of 1578, a ‘frantic attempt’, writes de Rocher, ‘at parrying the fierce blows to the power and prestige of physicians dealt by practical medicine’. Joubert was attacking ...”

“... was valuable as a reproach for absurd or wicked behaviour, but it could easily become improper. Laurent Joubert, a 16th-century doctor, makes laughter sound as unwelcome as a heart attack, what with the redness of the face, the sweat that sometimes comes out of the entire body, the sparkling of the eyes with the effusion of tears, the rising of the ...”

“... riches that error can produce. Catalogues of errors became bestsellers in Renaissance Europe. Laurent Joubert, physician to Catherine de Medici and Henry III, wrote two volumes on what Montaigne called ‘the vast and troubled sea of medical error’, including, in Les Erreurs populaires (1579), feisty chapters on wrong-headed assumptions about the ...”

“... want.’ In fact, the shake-up happened in Paris. In September, after the election in Gabon, Bruno Joubert, Sarkozy’s main Africa hand, was shunted off to the embassy in Morocco. Here he may well have reminisced about a meeting he had had, shortly after his arrival at the Elysée, with Eric Silla, then deputy officer for Africa at the US National ...”