Louis XV (1710-1774) was king of France from 1715 to 1774. His reign was marked by the decline of the prestige of the monarchy and the deepening of the crisis that eventually led to the French Revolut...
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Starting Early
Giovanni Giacomo
Casanova
was born in
Venice
in 1725. His parents intended him to be a priest and sent him to a seminary, but by his teens he had already embarked on the hedonism...
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