Paris Archives | Casanova in Paris

The salon myth

March 27, 2021
Posted by:
Category: Venice and Paris

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

The Seven Years War

January 23, 2021
Posted by:
Category: Flashbacks

No Comments

The key political event that acts as the backdrop to ‘Casanova Shadows’, in particular Part 2, is the Seven Years War which raged from 1756 to 1763, beginning the year prior to Casanova’s flight to Paris after his escape from the prisons of the Venetian inquisition in 1757. The Seven Years War is regarded as

Sounds (and sights) of eighteenth-century Paris

January 16, 2021
Posted by:
Category: Venice and Paris

No Comments

Here’s a great bit of historical re-creation for anyone who might be interested in what eighteenth-century Paris would have sounded (and looked) like for the characters in our novel: https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/sound-18th-century-paris 'Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King' is now freely available here. 27 long form articles on Casanova's life and times are freely available