This chapter is short. It seeks to make clear something that has been implicit in what has gone before, but which should now be stated. A fundamental contradiction lies at the core of the project of sumptuary regulation. I am not the first to have noticed this fact. The most elegant formulation comes from the pen of Montaigne:
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Hunt, A. (1996). The Fundamental Contradiction of Sumptuary Regulation. In: Governance of the Consuming Passions. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333984390_5
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