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Manon Mathias is Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2011 and the thesis won the George Sand Association Memorial Prize in 2013. She has published on the French novel and the natural sciences and is currently beginning the first interdisciplinary study of digestive health in nineteenth-century France by comparing novels, cookbooks and medical texts and the models of diet and wellbeing they propose to the reading public. Building on her recent work on excrement, health and the novel in the nineteenth century, the project connects the fields of literary studies, food history, and history of medicine to reach a new understanding of France’s distinctive position on the relationship between food and health.