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Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]

… remain sacred throughout his life. People > Association Keywords Friendship Worldliness celebrity networks Patronage theater Voltaire styled himself the ‘hermit of the Alps’ 1  in much of the correspondence he produced from his residence … called friend would remain sacred throughout his life. … Friendship … Worldliness … celebrity … networks … Patronage … theater … Voltaire (and his social networks) …

Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]

… from Below (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1990), p.16; Lauren Clay, Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), p. 210. What little elite …

Salons [ Associational culture ]

… Chicago University Press, 1975), p.17. Salons would also often include various genres of entertainment, such as theater, gambling, oral readings of new literary texts or recently received letters, and of course, extensive …

Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]

… & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2001), p. 38. 20 . Daniel O’Quinn, Corrosive Solace: Theater, Affect, and the Realignment of the Repertoire, 1780-1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), … 2019), pp. 128-136. 22 . Danielle Spratt, ‘’Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!’: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons’, Eighteenth-Century Life (vol. 37, n°3, 2013), p. 78. The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane …

John Ramsay (and his Italian diary) [ Travel / Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters ]

… in Italy and which gave him the opportunity to meet many people. Moreover, he took advantage of his trip to attend the theater assiduously. In Rome in January 1783, thanks to James Byres, he was even able to use the Countess of Albany's box …