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… facilitated the rise of a public debate about the elites and their moral shortcomings. Adultery, prostitution, excessive gambling, drunkenness: there is a considerable amount of prints dedicated to the dark side of aristocratic sociability. … and express their demands.’ 15 13 . Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale, 2013). 14 . The Times, 12 Sept. 1831. 15 . T. Piketty, Capital and Ideology …
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