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;
Cody Delistraty, ‘The Surprising Historical Significance of Fortune Telling’ – here
‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is now freely available here.
27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.
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