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  • ‘Paul’

    • September 18, 2021
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    ‘Paul’ (his name is in inverted commas because it’s not his real name) is a minor character on the wrong side.  He started life as an informant, a pretty common and mundane occupation in the Paris of Louis XV - (Casanova himself was a spy at different times in his life, both for the French
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  • Guillaime

    • June 26, 2021
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    Guillaime is fundamentally a decent man.  He loves his family, he is particularly close to his sisters and anticipates having a family of his own.  He’s a hardworking and reliable employee who is concerned about his career. His relationship with Gabrielle perhaps goes against the official religious codes of the day but in the cynical
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  • Identity in action

    • November 2, 2019
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    A good example of how a character can edit the identity that they wish to portray to others (just as everyone does in their ordinary life, albeit not with quite the same dramatic consequences) is Bechard.  In The Shadows of the King - Part 1, we find him in the company of Guillaime, ‘Paul’, the
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