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  • Reconstructing Paris – ‘Assassin’s Creed’ style

    • March 26, 2022
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      A bird’s eye view of eighteenth-century Paris – ‘Assassin’s Creed’ style - here Also, if you wanted to go for a casual stroll - here An article on how accurately the city has been rendered and what compromises have been made for game-play - here ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is
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  • The Encyclopédie

    • January 22, 2022
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      A fascinating Melvyn Bragg BBC podcast on the Encyclopédie, that embodiment of the Enlightenment and product of the intellectual hothouse that was Paris at the time (and which supposedly inspired Robert Damiens to attempt to assassinate Louis XV). However, good as it is, the podcast was broadcast in 2006 and does contain comments on
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  • The curious case of Louis-le-Grand

    • December 11, 2021
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      What do Abbé de Bernis, Voltaire and Robert Damiens all have in common, as well as being characters in ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’?  Well, all three either studied at, or were employed by, Louis-le-Grand, one of the most prestigious schools in Paris.  De Bernis and Voltaire were students and Robert
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