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Figaro Histoire “Louis XV, the unloved”.
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Jacques de Saint Victor teaches the history of law, ideas and institutions at the University of Paris-8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
The popular spirit wants a man to reveal himself above all in his fall.
The disgrace of the Duc de Choiseul says more than his spectacular rise about this great pleasure-loving, cheeky and cynical lord, whose personality would have served as a model for Beaumarchais for the portrait of Count Almaviva.
For, just as the Grand of Spain in The
Marriage of Figaro
is neither the monstrous Lovelace, nor the absurd Valmont or the frightening Don Juan, Choiseul had great qualities, a brilliant mind, a great patriot, as Anglomaniac as hostile to England, and he attempted a very estimable enterprise of recovery and modernization of the country to reverse the many errors of his predecessors at the beginning...
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