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The Grand Tour
- July 4, 2018
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No CommentsEighteenth-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 -
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 -
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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