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Toujours le livre de M. Flourens, 19th century. Man reading a book while looking in the mirror: he believes, like the author, that men's faces don't begin to look truly virile until they reach the age of 68 - he decides he will start to grow a moustache. French physiologist Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794-1867) was the author of "Age and Longevity and Quantity of Life on our Globe" ("De la longévité humaine et de la quantité de vie sur le globe"), 1854.