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  • Robert Damiens

    • September 28, 2019
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      Robert Damiens makes his appearance directly in The Shadows of the King – part 1 in only one double-page spread, although they are, graphically, amongst the most striking pages in the whole novel with their ingenious manipulation of space and time.  His attempt upon the life of Louis XV and his subsequent torture and
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  • Role playing

    • August 24, 2019
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      Frequently in ‘Casanova in Paris’ we explore the idea of role-playing.  Sometimes this is overt and sometimes it is more subtle.  It is, of course, a natural fit with a story that contains spying at its heart but it does touch on a phenomenon which is much broader than that and which everybody will
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  • Louis XV

    • July 20, 2019
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    One character who is central to the narrative but makes only a fleeting appearance early on in part one of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is Louis XV.  It is the attempted assassination of Louis that does much to set the ball rolling and, later, the attempt to make Gabrielle one of his courtesans which intensifies her
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