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  • Palais-Royal

    • September 26, 2020
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      Among many other things, Casanova was a great travel writer.  Here’s his account of a visit to the garden of the Palais-Royal in Paris which was open to the public:    After his visit I told Esprit to take me to the Palais-Royal, and I left him at the gates. I felt the greatest
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  • Joseph II

    • September 5, 2020
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    Casanova writes vignettes in his memoirs of a huge and fascinating menagerie of individuals.  One such was the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II: He was not wanting in learning, but the knowledge which he believed himself to possess destroyed the learning which he had in reality. He delighted in speaking to those who did not
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  • Casino

    • August 1, 2020
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      The term casino is derived from Venetian and was akin to a club which could be rented out for social gatherings. Some were highly respectable meeting places for intellectual debate.  Others were far more sordid.  Alongside gambling were reports of rape, prostitution, fraud, violence and sexual depravity. Casanova has left us an account of
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