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  • The Grand Tour

    • July 4, 2018
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      Eighteenth-century tourism.  ‘The Grand Tour’, an absorbing 30-minute BBC Melvyn Bragg podcast - here;  Also, a Met Museum essay on ‘The Grand Tour’ can be found here.   ‘The Prologue’, and chapters 1 to 8 of ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ are now freely available here. 6 long form articles on Casanova’s
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  • Threads

    • July 1, 2018
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      Chapter 8 - 'Threads' - now released and freely available - here 6 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely available here. #graphicnovel
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  • Parisian eighteenth-century fortune telling

    • June 30, 2018
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      Three fascinating accounts of Parisian eighteenth-century fortune-telling and its relationship to established authority and norms.  Similar to lotteries and gambling it was seen to be meddling in the domains of fate and divine will: Geri Walton, ‘Parisian Fortune-Tellers in the Eighteenth Century’ – here; Geri Walton, ‘The Great Cartomancer – Mademoiselle Lenormand’ – here;

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