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Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… refinement of the French, that they are fonder of theatrical amusements than the English? Or does it arise from that love of gaiety and pleasure, which is so much more prevalent in the French than the English character? A London …
France | Theatre | Coffeehouses | French Revolution
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… of the Works of David Hume (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), vol. 1, p. 206 (Book II, Part I, Section XI ‘Of the Love of Fame’). 6 . Ryu Susato, Hume’s Sceptical Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), p. 112. It … humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments’ ( Life of … [sic] as a man of letters is melancholy nonsense. It is not flattery when I assure you that you are more universally loved by all ranks of people than any man I ever knew, & I never met with any person who could pretend to any degree of …
Clubs | Enlightenment | France | Philosophy | Republic of Letters | Salons | Scotland | Societies
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… , and later became close with the president of the Chambre des enquêtes, Charles-Jean-François Hénault, who shared her love of repartee and sociability. The marquise du Deffand was a spirited woman with a sharp tongue. She presided over the …
Correspondence | France | Friendship | Salons
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Hôtel d'Angleterre at Calais (The) [ Institutions / Residences & Lodgings ]
France | Inn | Sentimentalism
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… of her hearts [ sic ] continually breaks through the varnish, so that one would be more inclined, at least I should, to love than to admire her. 7 As a member of the Amis des Noirs’s first society in Paris, Williams had close connections …
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… socialise, i.e. the huge public parks, the many cafés and the risturātūrāt (restaurants), where everybody, including lovers and eminent members of society would meet to eat, drink and make merry. 5 . Actually, with Napoleon’s expedition, …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… novels’ (Laclos 440). Abbé Prévost’s 1751 translation of the novel had attempted to adapt the language and behaviour of Lovelace, the prototype libertine seducer, to the French spirit of finesse . 8 Laclos went a step further by making …
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… Dudley: éd. Peeters, coll. "La République des Lettres", 34, 2007), p. 174-185. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Of The Love of Fame (1734) … England held a special allure for French readers. This attraction is evident in the titles …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
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Masonic brotherhood [ Rituals & Ceremonies / Associational culture ]
… 13 . Allusion à leur commune appartenance à l’ordre mixte de la Félicité. 14 . Kenneth Loiselle, Brotherly Love. Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014), p. …
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