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Casanova and Voltaire – part 1
- July 30, 2022
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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 the -
Voltaire, Frederick and Maupertuis
- April 9, 2022
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A lovely parody of Voltaire appeared in ‘The Gentleman’s and London Magazine’ and can be found, courtesy of Geri Walton, here. The parody was published anonymously in London in 1756, apparently penned by ‘a great prince’ and forwarded by an ‘ingenious Correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin’. If this is so, the -
‘Broken on the wheel’
- January 29, 2022
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Of the complaints against the Ancien Regime from those in the vanguard of the Enlightenment, very high on the list was the cruel and arbitrary nature of the legal system. In his memoirs, Casanova describes the notorious execution of Robert Damiens as an ‘offence to our common humanity’. A case that in some ways
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