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HIGHWAY 1761 REVISITED

”Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé Raynal (1713-1796) was an Enlightened historian who wrote on the Dutch Stadholderate and the English Parliament. His most famous work was the 8 volume Histoire...

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liberation of Mme de tencin

From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue… In France during the ancien regime the Tencin family of Grenoble rose by industry mixed with avarice from nothingness to...

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madame de tencin: liberation of null and void

A rockin’ nun. The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the beginning of the eighteenth-century and the rays of light were...

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tencin: stockjobbing the abbe and others

It was the Regency period in France, beginning in 1715 and was a hey-day of cynical license in the last legs of the aged Louis XIV. And Mme Alexandrine de Tencin found no lack of companions. Her vows...

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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...

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