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An edition of When Europe spoke French (2010)

When Europe spoke French

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During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. --from publisher description.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Page xi
Introduction
Page xv
1. Paris at the Dawn of the Enlightenment: The Abbé Conti and the Comte de Caylus
Page 1
2. A French Alcibiades and His English Plato: Anthony Hamilton and the Comte de Gramont
Page 34
3. An English Cicero in the France of Louis XIV: Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Page 55
4. The French Achilles of the Hapsburgs: Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
Page 70
5. Lelio and Marivaux
Page 86
6. Louis XV's Condottiere: Herman-Maurice of Saxony, Marshal of France
Page 97
7. Frederick II and Voltaire
Page 110
8. Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth: Sister of Frederick II
Page 125
9. Francesco Algarotti and Frederick II
Page 139
10. Charlotte-Sophie d'Aldenburg, Countess of Bentinck: "The Sévigné of Germany"
Page 159
11. The Parisian Model Seen from London: Lord Chesterfield, His Son's Tutor
Page 177
12. The Marquise du Deffand: From Voltaire to Walpole
Page 216
13. Catherine the Great: Voltaire's Eminent Correspondent
Page 240
14. Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova, Princess of Dashkova: A Russian Heroine at Home and Abroad
Page 258
15. The Abbé Galiani: The Warmth of Naples and the Wit of Paris
Page 268
16. Friedrich Melchior Grimm and the Strabismus of the Enlightenment
Page 279
17. William Beckford: The Author of Vathek
Page 298
18. Goya, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and William Beckford
Page 317
19. Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and "French Europe"
Page 336
20. Gustav III of Sweden: A Parisian from Stockholm
Page 364
21. A Romance in "The Cyclops's Maw": Hans Axel von Fersen and the "Austrian Woman"
Page 384
22. Benjamin Franklin, Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen
Page 393
23. A United States Ambassador to the Rescue of Louis XVI: Gouveneur Morris
Page 412
24. A Queen of England in Partibus: Louise Maximilienne Caroline von Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany
Page 428
25. Charles-Joseph de Ligne: The Last Homme d'Esprit
Page 448
26. An Enlightenment Test Site: Poland and Its Last King, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski
Page 467
Index
Page 501

Edition Notes

Originally published in French: Quand l'Europe parlait francais.

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New York
Series
New York review books classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
440.9/409033
Library of Congress
PC3680.E85 F8613 2010, PC3680.E85F8613 2010, PC3680.E85 F8613 2011

The Physical Object

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Paperback
Pagination
xxxi, 519p.
Number of pages
552

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OL24412696M
Internet Archive
whenworldspokefr00fuma
ISBN 13
9781590173756
LCCN
2010034847
OCLC/WorldCat
657270919, 748834450

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OL15445142W

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