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.
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