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… caused by the presence of exotic animals resulting in the ‘avalanche-like growth of the most negligible impulses of love and hate’. 2 Georgian crowds exhibited a collective sensitivity, a passion, an eccentricity that was fostered by … Wallbeck and many others. In particular, Voltaire, while describing the English people to Rousseau, mentioned that they love to amuse themselves with ‘oddities of any kind’, 3 that is to say with such exotic animals as the king’s elephants … Happenstall, a shrewd showman touring England with a dromedary from Persia and a camel from Grand Cairo, informed the lovers of living curiosities that they might admire his exotic animals at the Talbot Inn on the Strand between December …
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