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  • Madame de Pompadour

    • May 2, 2018
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    Perhaps next only to Casanova himself, the most well-known figure in our novel, at least in the popular imagination, is that of Louis XV’s chief mistress, Madame de Pompadour.  We’ve kept her role pretty faithful to what we know about her historically.  She played a major part in the political, cultural and economic life of
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  • Abbess Catherine

    • April 14, 2018
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    Abbess Catherine is one of the minor characters in ‘Casanova in Paris’.  Casanova has arranged with the Abbess to hide Gabrielle in the convent of which she is the head.  To a modern audience the abbess seems to be rather unhinged: a schizophrenic who believes that since childhood she has harboured within her the soul
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  • Madame de Boufflers

    • March 28, 2018
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    Madame de Boufflers was a real historical figure, a French noblewoman, a contemporary of Casanova, mistress to King Stanislas of Poland and someone who enjoyed a succession of lovers.  According to historian Ian Kelly she was one of a number of ladies-in-waiting ‘with some time and much money on their hands’ who had become intrigued
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