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  • The controversial cupid

    • March 23, 2019
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    A fascinating account by Anne-Lise Desmas on the story behind Edme Bouchardon’s 1750 controversial statue of Cupid carving a bow from Hercule’s Club, commissioned by Philibert Oudry, Louis XV’s director of the King's Buildings - here   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life
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  • Winging it

    • February 23, 2019
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    Arriving in Paris penniless but with connections in high places, Casanova was able very quickly to make himself a fortune.  The monarchy was hard up for cash and Casanova claimed to have a plan that could help them out. In reality, he had no such plan at all.  Intrigued, one the chief financiers to the
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  • Hume and Rousseau – an eighteenth-century scandal

    • February 16, 2019
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    A thoroughly entertaining and informative account by David Edmonds and John Eidinow of one of the great celebrity disputes of the eighteenth century - here   ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova’s life and times are freely available here.   #hume #europe #eighteenthcentury #rousseau
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