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‘The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans’
- August 28, 2021
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- Category: Venice and Paris
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Fascinating review article on the relationship between the state and elite prostitutes in eighteenth-century Paris: ‘The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans’. The painting above, which was chosen to illustrate the article, was a portrait of Marie-Louis O’Morphy, supposedly commissioned by Casanova. O’Morphy, who was to become one of Louis XV’s favourites, was discovered -
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 -
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
