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Hide and seek
- November 26, 2022
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Much of the narrative of ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ revolves around the machinations of two of Louis XV’s spymasters and these final pages of a sequence in which Gabrielle arranges a meeting with Casanova highlights pretty well the theme of hiding, seeking (and revealing) information. The meeting is secret. Gabrielle -
In the wood
- June 4, 2022
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Two thirds of the way through chapter 4 (‘Place de Fleurs’) we created a sequence where Stefano meets Casanova in a wood. Having painted an unsympathetic picture of Stefano’s personality in chapter 2 (‘Stefano, Marie and Giuseppe’) and earlier in chapter 4, it was now time to shift the balance of the audience’s sympathy -
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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