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Subject(s)

• French language—Europe—History—18th century [Browse]
• Paris (France)—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]
• Europe—Civilization—French influences [Browse]

Related name

Howard, Richard, 1929-2022 [Browse]

Series

• New York Review Books classics [More in this series]
• New York review books classics

Notes

Originally published as Quand l'Europe parlait français by Éditions de Fallois.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Romanova 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.

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ISBN

• 9781590173756 (alk. paper)
• 1590173759 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2010034847

OCLC

657270919

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