Voyage

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Diplomats in London (1660-1714)

JETTOT Stéphane
Le renforcement de la puissance militaire et financière de l’Angleterre et du Royaume-Uni place la métropole londonienne au cœur des relations diplomatiques européennes. Par conséquent, la sociabilité des ambassadeurs et consuls auprès des monarques et du Parlement de Westminster s’est reconfigurée en profondeur.
Dositej Obradović

Dositej Obradović

LAZAREVIC Persida
Dositej Obradović (1739/41-1811), Serbia’s foremost enlightener, was able to carry out reforms thanks to his circle of friends and the ties he established among Serbs were a direct consequence of his stay in London.
Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

RODOVA Diana
Flora Tristan (1803-1844), femme de lettres, féministe, militante ouvrière et philanthrope française, se rendit en Angleterre quatre fois au cours de sa vie. Les modalités de ses déplacements furent conditionnées par sa situation sociale. Voyageuse intrépide, elle se rendit à Londres pour rencontrer ses nombreux habitants et pour observer les pratiques de sociabilité dans les sphères politiques et sociales.
Portrait of Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

STEFANOVSKA Malina
Casanova’s sociability was the result of his personality, and his life, most of which – at least the part recounted – was spent as a wanderer throughout Europe, an adventurer seeking fortune. Casanova made his living by such varied means as organizing a royal lottery, gambling, and at times acting as a confidence man.
Helen Maria Williams

Helen Maria Williams

LEONARD-ROQUES Véronique
‘In every country it is social pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140 ). This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of ideas between France and England through her intellectual and political circles as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration.
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

HANSEN Mascha
Often considered a contradictory character herself, Hester Thrale Piozzi, now best remembered as a Bluestocking hostess and biographer of Samuel Johnson, embodies some of the contradictions of eighteenth-century sociable lives.