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Censorship in eighteenth-century France
- June 12, 2021
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An extract from Dave’s article ‘The Old Regime’. “Censorship, of course, was the norm. Up until 1699, it had been undertaken by several bodies: the Parlement of Paris, the Sorbonne and the Church as well as by the royal chancellor. From 1699, however, the chancellor, Louis II Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, imposed royal authority over -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- May 8, 2021
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Here’s a link to Geri Walton’s entertaining account of the sex life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), a highly influential Genevan philosopher and writer and someone who was heavily involved in the moral and religious controversies of the day. Rousseau is going to make a very brief appearance in part 2 of ‘Casanova in Paris: The -
The salon myth
- March 27, 2021
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Many people with a passing interest in history will be familiar with the Enlightenment salons of 18th century Paris, lead by such redoubtable salonnières as Madame Geoffrin and Madame Deffand. Salon culture was supposedly a gathering of the high-minded and sophisticated elite of French society and beyond, bound together by the sort of radical
