… were born in the Americas, were more likely to remain in the colony, though wealthy Creoles usually sent their children off to Europe for their education. 2 . Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from … These women were influential. Those partnered with men of wealth kept up social relations in order to marry their children into other wealthy families or to serve as intermediaries to help families pursue their marriage strategies. …
France | Marronage | North America | Slavery | Theatre | Women
… his visit to France. In 1766, she began corresponding with the future diplomat, Robert Liston, who had accompanied the children of Gilbert Elliot to the French capital as their tutor. Both would be long and fruitful exchanges. 2 . Marianne …
Anglomania | Correspondence | France | Friendship | Theatre
… others as an act of generosity. In his treatise on education of 1762, François de Paule Combalusier called for teaching children ‘that all men are brothers, that they are equal by their nature, that they are essentially tied by the …
… of your Lodge, not Grand Master, that he can’t be, under chosen by the Grand Lodge, I rejoice to hear that he & my other children are not only learn’d in the Craft, but that Vertue, Harmony & Benevolence reign among when you are together. 11 …
Brotherhood | Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Discrimination | Ecumenism | France | Freemasonry | Women
… English literature was read, Sterne being one of the authors, while the Princess herself was a devoted Sternean. Her children's tutor was Lach-Szyrma, who accompanied her son on a journey to Britain and mentions reading Sterne's …