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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… Cosmopolitanism Fiction France Freemasonry Republic of Letters Born on 18 October 1741 in Amiens to a recently ennobled family, Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented … dangereuses : The rationale for the work is to popularise this truth that there is no happiness except within the family . I can certainly prove this, and I am not at a loss to know where I will take the subject of my scenes from. But … death in Taranto on 5 September 1803 put a stop to his plans to write a work visibly inspired by the bourgeois family model. 13 . Laclos, 'Des femmes et de leur éducation', Œuvres complètes, p. 389-443. Share Partager sur Facebook …
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… Salons Madame du Deffand, née Marie de Vichy-Champrond, was born in 1698 into an old but impoverished provincial noble family. In 1718, following an education received at the Benedictine convent of Madeleine de Traisnel, in Paris, she …
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights reinstated after the fall of the Bastille, the Du Fossé family invited Williams to stay with them so that she could observe for herself how the fledgling Revolution was … Edgeworth to Sophie Ruxton, 8 December 1802, in Maria Edgeworth in France and Switzerland, Selections from the Edgeworth family letters, in ed. Christina Colvin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), p. 53. 14 . Lady Morgan, France, vol.2 (London: …
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Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… of war residing in the Hampshire town of Petersfield in the 1790s, where French men of rank socialised with the Bonham family. Their use of the Bonham’s library and the taking part in convivial dinners were cultural activities shared by … experience of life in a parole town. However, another intercepted letter, albeit one from what appears to be a wealthy family, provides a rare insight into what life may have been like for a young woman, paroled with her patents in the …
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Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… was a spectrum of the practice. Petit marronage involved leaving the plantation temporarily, often to visit friends or family, evade work or punishments, or extend holiday festivities. These maroons sometimes created networks of underground … 2017). Amateur performance of plays had long been a pastime in Saint Domingue. It was source of entertainment among family and friends. Performing European plays helped the colonists feel connected to the Continent. Enthusiasm for …
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