Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… et Théodore ou Lettres sur l’éducation (1782), which was successful in Great Britain, Mme de Genlis was received at court in London in 1785 along with Louis Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans. Williams then visited several properties belonging … letter 37) . In her works on the Empire, Williams expressed her contempt for the etiquette established at the Tuileries court, in particular criticising Napoleon’s inability to ‘understand the charm of a witty, refined society (Williams, …
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