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Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… work took up one of the major themes explored in Laclos’s work, namely the pitfalls that await a young woman entering society without an education and without adequate knowledge of the dangers that she might be exposed to. Implicitly … and instruction to a genre that was to consolidate its status. Its aim above all was to provide a window onto a society that was being corroded from within. The epistolary exchange, a symbol of sociability, became the libertines’ … A Series of Letters, selected from the Correspondence of a Private Circle; and Published for the Instruction of Society ), which used its form to advantage more than any other work, appears to be the tool that disintegrated the …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Loge se dote alors de Constitutions , dont le duc de Montagu est dédicataire. C’est en effet dans l’orbite de la Royal Society que se constitue le noyau fondateur de la Grande Loge de Londres ainsi que son inspiration newtonienne … de la sociabilité maçonnique en ce début de XVIII e siècle : William Stukeley. Médecin et antiquaire, membre de la Royal Society, il est secrétaire de la Society of Antiquaries . Sa réception dans l’ordre maçonnique est précoce (1720-1721). Lorsqu’il quitte Londres pour le …
Aristocracy | Commerce | Freemasonry | Hospitality
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