Le Pétomane, on the other hand, had long since faded away. There were a few who still remembered him sufficiently well to joke, in all of the inevitable ways, about the evanescence of his stardom - it ...

The flatulist in question was a Frenchman called Joseph Pujol, who was better known by his stage name 'Le Pétomane', and he was no ordinary expeller of air but rather a man who strained to make farts ...