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caught in the thorns
Classically, in politics, going back even to Machiavelli or Lord Chesterfield, one’s adversary is not a demon or an enemy to be obliterated at all costs. The opponent is just another player in a game with set rules and defined … Continue reading
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Tagged Ari Abramovitz The Land of Israel, Jeremy Gimpel, Jewish Home Party Israel, Jewish Israel organization, Lord Chesterfield, Machiavelli Mandragola, Machiavelli The Prince, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Naftali Bennett, Texans for Israel, The Jew Among Thorns Grimm's Fairy Tales, Yair Lapid
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what’s cookin’
…One of the chief concerns of a fashionable lord was to keep a good table, and the key to a good table was a French cook. The cartoon shows the Duke of Newcastle remonstrating with his famous chef, Cloue: “Oh … Continue reading
tencin: high wire act between rationalism and passion
“My menagerie,” Alexandrine Tencin called her salon; her guests were “mes betes.” Her Tuesdays she filled with good talk, high spirits, and low comedy involving chamber pots and such. Her leisure she filled with literature, the recourse of the bored. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Charlotte Lennox, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Jean-Honore Fragonard, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, Lord Chesterfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milton Albrecht, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Peter Gay, Regent Fontenelle, Rene Vaillot, Renee Vaillot, Renee Winegarten, Voltaire
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liberation: french identity on the short leash
The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the end of the Louis XIV reign, a hey-day of cynical license that characterized the Regency period that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Prevost, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Fontenelle, Helvetius, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Le Rond, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, La Fresnais suicide, Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Chesterfield, Manon Lescaut, Marivaux, Matthew Prior, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Pyramus-and-Thisbe, Voltaire, Voltaire in the Bastille
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london calling : crumb’s boswell journal
Adult sexual obsession. A madness that is disquietingly normal. The madness of the ordinary.The kind of torment that completes itself in sexual obsession. There is something uncanny in Robert Crumb’s caricatures of James Boswell, something that connects bad and bawdy … Continue reading
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Tagged charlotte ann burney, David Hume, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Fanny Burney, Henry Fielding, henry singleton, James Boswell, jay david bolter, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lord Chesterfield, Pasquale Paoli, richard grusin, Robert Crumb, Theodore Dalrymple, walter pape
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wake up and smell the coffee
Make sure the coffee is ready, hot and with extra brewing. Its not known if Voltaire preferred cream and sugar or straight up black, however it has been documented that the philosopher and part-time scallywag and ringtail drank copious amounts … Continue reading
SELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Duke of Rutland, Emma Hamilton, Fanny Burney, George Cruikshank, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Huntingdon, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Dartmouth, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Shellabager, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Gainsborough, Tony Mayer
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HEALING WATERS & BUBBLING PASSIONS
There is,and always has been, an especial magic attached to the idea of healing springs. In antiquity they were believed to be the abode of nymphs, or sometimes of a god; in the Middle Ages,a saint was often considered to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath England, Beau Nash, Bladud, Dr. Boetherum, Dr. Oliver Bath, James I, jane Austen Pump Room Bath, King Edgar, King Henry VIII, King's bath Bath, Lord Chesterfield, Princess Amelia, Samuel Pepys, Steele and Smollet, Temple of Sulis Minerva Bath, Thomas Rowlandson, Vespasian
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MACARONI CLUB
Dashing and dandy and chasing the candy. In Paris and Rome the young aristocrats of the eighteenth century quickly sought out, and made rich those teachers those teachers who specialized in adding grace to the gifts which nature had bestowed. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Towneley, Domenico Angelo fencing, Gaspard de Saunier, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Lord Chesterfield, Macaroni Club, Pierre Rameau, The Grand Tour
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