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Power
- January 28, 2023
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One of the key aspects of most narratives is the nature and expression of power. Characters are enmeshed in a web of social and political forces within which they possess greater or lesser agency. Where people exist within these power relationships and how they respond to them goes a long way to defining who -
Stefano, Abbé de Bernis, Thibaut Bechard and God
- May 28, 2022
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In a previous ‘Behind the scenes’ blog, we looked at how we had gone about representing that key aspect of eighteenth-century French society which was religion. One of the ways we did this was to include characters who either had an official spiritual role or were conspicuously religious. Three characters in this regard who are -
Madame de Pompadour
- April 23, 2022
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Perhaps next only to Casanova himself, the most well-known figure in our novel, at least in the popular imagination, is that of Louis XV’s chief mistress, Madame de Pompadour. We’ve kept her role pretty faithful to what we know about her historically. She played a major part in the political, cultural and economic life of
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