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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 3

    • July 25, 2018
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    The third of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. At the age of thirty-five, Casanova had the opportunity to meet the great man.  In 1759 (the year, incidentally, that Voltaire had published Candide) Casanova was rich, a consequence of the Paris lottery he had helped to found, subsidies from the Marquise d’Urfé
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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 2

    • July 7, 2018
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    The second of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. So how did Voltaire influence Casanova?  Before attempting to answer that question it’s perhaps worth inserting a caveat.  There is no doubt that Voltaire did have a major impact upon Casanova (he described himself as Voltaire’s ‘pupil’) but we need to bear in
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  • Casanova and Voltaire – part 1

    • June 20, 2018
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      The first of four blogs on the relationship between Casanova and Voltaire. One of the most significant individuals in Casanova’s life was Voltaire.  Casanova aspired to be recognised as a serious man of letters and it was Voltaire, the Enlightenment’s great Patriarch, against whom he sought to match himself.  To get some idea of
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