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  • The day Robert Damiens tried to kill Louis XV

    • August 21, 2021
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    Two months after his escape from 'Il Piombi' Casanova arrives in Paris in the company of the family of Madame Riviere, on the day that Robert Damiens attempted to kill Louis XV.  Here's his account of that day: We reached Paris on the 5th of January, 1757, and I went to the house of my
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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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  • The Encyclopédie

    • March 17, 2018
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    • Category: Venice and Paris
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      A fascinating Melvyn Bragg BBC podcast on the Encyclopédie, that embodiment of the Enlightenment and product of the intellectual hothouse that was Paris at the time (and which supposedly inspired Robert Damiens to attempt to assassinate Louis XV). However, good as it is, the podcast was broadcast in 2006 and does contain comments on
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