# M. Le Petomane

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 6, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104 "2002-04-06T00:50:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![hyjyljyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@hyjyljyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyjyljyj)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104/1 "2002-04-06T00:50:39Z")

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Your excellent bit on Monsieur Bujol, aka Le Petomane [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_394](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394) was entertaining to read. I have read in a couple of places that this gentleman, who would entertain audiences at the Moulin Rouge by farting, the way other performers entertain by singing, was the highest-paid entertainer in the history of France at the turn of the 20th century. (I didn’t see the movie _Moulin Rouge_–did it feature this guy?)

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104/2 "2002-04-06T01:10:33Z")

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No, M. le Pétomane didn’t appear in _Moulin Rouge_, unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104/3 "2002-04-10T20:49:28Z")

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Oddly enough, La Petomane was listed in the credits of Moulin Rouge—but he must have been (pardon the expression!) cut from the final edit.

His only biography may be found via bookfinder: [http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sl&ac=sl&qi=Yj0p3KvMFprDZsbCMIFBOIcYj0C0.oFB:0:0](http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sl&ac=sl&qi=Yj0p3KvMFprDZsbCMIFBOIcYj0C0.oFB:0:0)

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**Author:** ![monterey86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@monterey86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monterey86)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/m-le-petomane/102104/4 "2002-04-16T15:45:26Z")

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I guess everyone knows this, but Mel Brooks played Governor William J. Le Petomane in Blazing Saddles.