Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… passèrent quatre-vingt-un ans chez les Mégamicres, habitants aborigènes du protocosme dans l’intérieur de notre globe (Paris: Éditions François Bourin, 1988), p. 83. 2 . Giacomo Casanova, Histoire de ma vie, vol. I-III (Paris: Gallimard, bibl. de la Pleiade, 2014-15). History of My Life, trans. by Willard Trask (Harcourt: Brace and World, … Foreign Affairs Minister, abbé de Bernis, whom Casanova met as a fellow libertine, helped him set up a royal lottery in Paris that brought him prosperity for a time; the ultra-rich alchemy devotee, Mme d’Urfé, simply gave him millions for …
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