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  • Frederick the Great

    • October 17, 2018
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    In 1764, Casanova made his way to the court of this great Enlightenment monarch, hoping to set up a lottery.  He didn’t succeed in that but he did make a good enough impression for Frederick to offer him a post as a tutor (which he turned down).  In his memoirs, Casanova noted: Frederick had his
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  • The curious case of Louis-le-Grand

    • February 28, 2018
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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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  • The Seven Years War

    • June 19, 2017
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    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
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