When Europe spoke French
By: By Marc Fumaroli ; translated by Richard Howard
Contributors: Howard, Richard
Series: New York review books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781590173756
Work titles: Quand l'Europe parlait francais
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published in French: Quand l'Europe parlait francais.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xv; label: 1
title: Paris at the Dawn of the Enlightenment: The Abbé Conti and the Comte de Caylus
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: A French Alcibiades and His English Plato: Anthony Hamilton and the Comte de Gramont
pagenum: 34; label: 3
title: An English Cicero in the France of Louis XIV: Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
pagenum: 55; label: 4
title: The French Achilles of the Hapsburgs: Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
pagenum: 70; label: 5
title: Lelio and Marivaux
pagenum: 86; label: 6
title: Louis XV's Condottiere: Herman-Maurice of Saxony, Marshal of France
pagenum: 97; label: 7
title: Frederick II and Voltaire
pagenum: 110; label: 8
title: Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth: Sister of Frederick II
pagenum: 125; label: 9
title: Francesco Algarotti and Frederick II
pagenum: 139; label: 10
title: Charlotte-Sophie d'Aldenburg, Countess of Bentinck: "The Sévigné of Germany"
pagenum: 159; label: 11
title: The Parisian Model Seen from London: Lord Chesterfield, His Son's Tutor
pagenum: 177; label: 12
title: The Marquise du Deffand: From Voltaire to Walpole
pagenum: 216; label: 13
title: Catherine the Great: Voltaire's Eminent Correspondent
pagenum: 240; label: 14
title: Ekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova, Princess of Dashkova: A Russian Heroine at Home and Abroad
pagenum: 258; label: 15
title: The Abbé Galiani: The Warmth of Naples and the Wit of Paris
pagenum: 268; label: 16
title: Friedrich Melchior Grimm and the Strabismus of the Enlightenment
pagenum: 279; label: 17
title: William Beckford: The Author of Vathek
pagenum: 298; label: 18
title: Goya, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and William Beckford
pagenum: 317; label: 19
title: Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and "French Europe"
pagenum: 336; label: 20
title: Gustav III of Sweden: A Parisian from Stockholm
pagenum: 364; label: 21
title: A Romance in "The Cyclops's Maw": Hans Axel von Fersen and the "Austrian Woman"
pagenum: 384; label: 22
title: Benjamin Franklin, Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen
pagenum: 393; label: 23
title: A United States Ambassador to the Rescue of Louis XVI: Gouveneur Morris
pagenum: 412; label: 24
title: A Queen of England in Partibus: Louise Maximilienne Caroline von Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany
pagenum: 428; label: 25
title: Charles-Joseph de Ligne: The Last Homme d'Esprit
pagenum: 448; label: 26
title: An Enlightenment Test Site: Poland and Its Last King, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski
pagenum: 467; title: Index
pagenum: 501