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  • The great Lisbon earthquake

    • June 1, 2019
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      The Lisbon earthquake struck on November 1st (All Saints Day), 1755, and was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history. The subsequent fires and tsunami almost entirely destroyed the city and much of the surrounding area.  The horror and tragedy of the event provoked Voltaire to write his ‘Poem on the Lisbon disaster’, a
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  • Stefano, Abbé de Bernis, Thibaut Bechard and God

    • May 19, 2018
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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

    • May 5, 2018
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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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