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A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception.
Her book Die Macht des Charlatans from 1937 is internationally regarded as a scientific standard and reference work on the topic of charlatanism. It was translated to English (The Power of the Charlatan) in 1939. In the 1930s, De Francesco wrote a large number of cultural studies essays on border areas of medicine for the in-house journal of ...
Political cartoon by J. M. Staniforth: Herbert Kitchener attempts to raise £100,000 for a college in Sudan by calling on the name of C. G. Gordon. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.
The Charlatan, an 1895 book by Robert Williams Buchanan and Henry Murray; The Charlatan, a 1934 book by Sydney Horler; The Charlatan, a 2002 book by Derek Walcott; Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, a 2008 book by Pope Brock about John R. Brinkley
French philosopher François Roustang called it an "incoherent system of pseudo-scientific gibberish", and quoted linguist Noam Chomsky's opinion that Lacan was an "amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatan". [143] Noam Chomsky, in a 2012 interview on Veterans Unplugged, said: "[Q]uite frankly I thought [Lacan] was a total charlatan. He ...
Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: / k ɑː l ˈ j ɔː s t r oʊ, k æ l-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, [1] [2] Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian occultist.
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Tabarin, detail from the title page of Inventaire universel des oeuvres de Tabarin, 1622 Title page of Inventaire universel des oeuvres de Tabarin, 1622. Tabarin was the street name of Anthoine Girard (c. 1584 – August 16, 1633), the most famous Parisian street charlatan of his day, who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his brother Philippe (as Mondor ...