When the world spoke French /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2011]
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| Series: | New York Review Books classics.
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Table of Contents:
- Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment : the Abbé Conti and the Comte de Caylus
- A French Alcibiades and his English Plato : Anthony Hamilton and the Comte de Gramont
- An English Cicero in the France of Louis XIV : Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
- The French Achilles of the Hapsburgs : Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
- Lelio and Marivaux
- Louis XV's condottiere : Herman-Maurice of Saxony, Marshal of France
- Frederick II and Voltaire
- Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth, sister of Frederick II
- Francesco Algarotti and Frederick II
- Charlotte-Sophie d'Aldenburg, Countess of Bentinck : "The Sévigné of Germany"
- The Parisian model seen from London : Lord Chesterfield, his son's tutor
- The Marquise du Deffand : From Voltaire to Walpole
- Catherine the Great : Voltaire's eminent correspondent
- Ekaterina Romaniva Vorontsova, Princess of Dashkova : a Russian heroine at home and abroad
- The Abbé Galiani : the warmth of Naples and the wit of Paris
- Friedrich Melchior Grimm and the Strabismus of the Enlightenment
- William Beckford : the author of Vathek
- Goya, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and William Beckford
- Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and "French Europe"
- Gustav III of Sweden : a Parisian from Stockholm
- A romance in "The cyclops's maw" : Hans Axel von Fersen and the "Austrian woman"
- Benjamin Franklin, Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen
- A United States ambassador to the rescue of Louis XVI : Gouveneur Morris
- A queen of England in partibus : Louise Maximilienne Caroline von Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany
- Charles-Joseph de Ligne : the last homme d'esprit
- An Enlightenment test site : Poland and its last king, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski.