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  • 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
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  • Religion

    • April 30, 2022
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    Eighteenth-century Europe was an intensely religious place, at least compared to modern Europe. Casanova himself was a believer in God and defended the Catholic Church in his conversations with Voltaire.  Its power was not as great as it had once been because of the challenge of the Enlightenment but, nonetheless, it was important to reflect
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  • Abbess Catherine

    • March 19, 2022
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    Abbess Catherine is one of the minor characters in ‘Casanova in Paris’.  Casanova has arranged with the Abbess to hide Gabrielle in the convent of which she is the head.  To a modern audience the abbess seems to be rather unhinged: a schizophrenic who believes that since childhood she has harboured within her the soul
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