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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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finding his way to Him
Saint Francis set us straight about the democracy of all God’s creatures, but he still enjoyed a pig’s foot stew and never thought of becoming a vegetarian…. In October, 1224, Saint Francis of Assisi descended from Mount La Verna, where … Continue reading
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Tagged Alessandro Leopardi, Berlinghieri Saint Francis, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Chiara San Damiano, Dante Alighieri, hermitage of the Portiuncula, Honorius III, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montale Italian poet, Petrarch, Poor Clares order of nuns, Pyramus-and-Thisbe, Saint Francis, Saint Francis and Chiara, Saint Francis of Assissi, Tommaso da Celano
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