Word: cornut
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Raynaud's biggest market was Africa. At Brazzaville, in French Equatorial Africa, High Commissioner Bernard Cornut-Gentile, engaged in a war against native fetishism, found Raynaud's love potion filling the air around him. High Commissioner Cornut-Gentile wrote to the district attorney at Toulouse: "With the use of this magnetized love perfume we are marking a return to sorcery. This dangerous current must be stopped." The Toulouse district attorney hauled Raynaud to court and charged him with fraud. Raynaud, who is a bachelor himself, stoutly argued that his was "an agreeable perfume which fixes the sentiments...
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