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xi, 292 pages : portraits ; 22 cm |
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Originally published in 1954. |
| Contents |
The years of apprenticeship -- Mother and son -- The favourites -- Voltaire -- Grimm -- The autocrat -- The French revolution -- Mme Geoffrin -- Mme du Deffand -- Mlle de Lespinasse -- Mme du Deffand and Horace Walpole -- Mme Necker -- Charles XII and Peter the Great -- The ancien Regime -- THe story of civilisation -- The philosophy of history |
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. |
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France -- Intellectual life.
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France. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Voltaire, 1694-1778.
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Voltaire, 1694-1778. |
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Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.
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Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898. |
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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