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tencin: high wire act between rationalism and passion
“My menagerie,” Alexandrine Tencin called her salon; her guests were “mes betes.” Her Tuesdays she filled with good talk, high spirits, and low comedy involving chamber pots and such. Her leisure she filled with literature, the recourse of the bored. … Continue reading
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liberation: french identity on the short leash
The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the end of the Louis XIV reign, a hey-day of cynical license that characterized the Regency period that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Prevost, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Fontenelle, Helvetius, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Le Rond, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, La Fresnais suicide, Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Chesterfield, Manon Lescaut, Marivaux, Matthew Prior, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Pyramus-and-Thisbe, Voltaire, Voltaire in the Bastille
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tencin: stockjobbing the abbe and others
It was the Regency period in France, beginning in 1715 and was a hey-day of cynical license in the last legs of the aged Louis XIV. And Mme Alexandrine de Tencin found no lack of companions. Her vows from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Chevalier Destouches, D'Alembert, Denis Diderot, francois boucher paintings, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Jean-Honore Fragonard, John Law, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, Lord Bolingbroke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Prior, Philippe d'Orleans
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arguing from bank to boudoir
Powerful advocates brought Alexandrine’s pleas to the ear of the pope, and in November 1712, her vows were formally annulled. It was the liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, and from bank to boudoir, she was always … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond, Lord Bolingbroke, Louis XIV, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Prior, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Mme de Ferriol, Mme de Tencin, Philippe d'Orleans
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madame de tencin: liberation of null and void
A rockin’ nun. The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the beginning of the eighteenth-century and the rays of light were starting to shine through … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Raynal, Cardinal Dubois, Charles-Joseph de la Fresnaye, Charlotte Lennox, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Lord Bolingbroke, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Prior poet, Mme de Ferriol, Mme de Tencin, Philippe d'Orleans, Regent Fontenelle, Reverend James Wood, Vauban military engineer
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liberation of Mme de tencin
From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue… In France during the ancien regime the Tencin family of Grenoble rose by industry mixed with avarice from nothingness to wealth, provincial distinction, and a tiny … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Antoine de Tencin, Charles-Joseph de la Fresnaye, Charlotte Lennox, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mme de Tencin, Renee Winegarten
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neither the real or unreal
Does every artist paint him or herself in a portrait? That is, a representation of the alter-ego. Is Girodet’s Belley portrait a reflection of the artist, following the tradition as almost all the great masters have done before? It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, angelo poliziano, Anne-Louis Girodet, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, gerolamo savonarola, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger
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to be equals among equals
Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading
MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Adam Smith, Albert Bierstadt, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Bernard Jolibert, Bernard Picart, Christopher Columbus, Conrad Black, Dan Brown, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Edgar Samuel Paxson, Emanuel Leutze, Frederic Remington, French and Indian Wars, George Washington, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Herman Atkins MacNeil, Howard Terpning, Jeff Nall, John Graves Simcoe, John Locke, John Trudell, Keith S. Thomson, Lewis and Clark Expedition, madame Vernet, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Michael T. Lubragge, Randy Newman, Robert Redford, Theodor de Bry, Will Wilkinson, www.willwilkinson.net
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NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.F. Tait, Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Abbe Raynal, Adrian van der Kemp, American Indian Movement, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Benjamin West, bishop Madison of Virginia, Chief Crazy Horse, Comte de Buffon, Crazy Horse, Dr. William Robertson, Ernest Lee Tuveson, Father Francisco Clavijero, Freud, General Sir William Johnson, George Catlin, Gerald Boerner, Greuze, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Isaac Newton, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Keith S. Thomson, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Philip Mazzei, Rochambeau, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Jefferson, www.boerner.net
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