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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 4

    • November 12, 2022
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    The fourth of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. Overall, you do get the impression that in his account of their meeting at Les Délices Casanova had tried to give an honest and even-handed description of Voltaire, taking care to illustrate both his vices and virtues.  One of the aims of Histoire
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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 3

    • October 8, 2022
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    The third of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. At the age of thirty-five, Casanova had the opportunity to meet the great man.  In 1759 (the year, incidentally, that Voltaire had published Candide) Casanova was rich, a consequence of the Paris lottery he had helped to found, subsidies from the Marquise d’Urfé
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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 2

    • September 3, 2022
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    The second of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. So how did Voltaire influence Casanova?  Before attempting to answer that question it’s perhaps worth inserting a caveat.  There is no doubt that Voltaire did have a major impact upon Casanova (he described himself as Voltaire’s ‘pupil’) but we need to bear in
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