… public were keen to see it. Alongside Voltaire’s brilliant and prodigious worldliness, which only added to his mythical reputation, he formed deep and genuine friendships: with Nicolas-Claude Thieriot, whom he met when his father forced him …
… was socially mixed, British, urban, and Whig. 8 8 . As opposed to the landed elite and freeholders who had the reputation of being Tories. Essay periodical also defined commercial sociability in a broader sense that included moral …
… High-bred, elegant Boscawen’), as did Nathanial Wraxall in his Memoirs : ‘Mrs. Boscawen, though inferior in literary reputation to Mrs. Montagu, and perhaps possessed of less general information, yet conciliated more goodwill. She had an …
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