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The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
| Author: | Casanova, Giacomo
Shared by: Ata Uysal |
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 64 | |
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| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2981 | |
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Jacques Casanova de Seingault was a Venetian adventurer and author. His autobiography, "Histoire de ma vie" (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. So famous a womanizer was the Italian-born Casanova that, a full two centuries after his death, his name remains synonymous with the art of...
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... After I had given the doctor a fee of two Louis for his advice, in writing, on a case of tapeworm, he made me walk with him by the Avanches road, and we went as far as the famous mortuary of Morat. "This mortuary," said the doctor, "was constructed with part of the bones of the Burgundians, who perished here at the well-known battle lost by Charles the Bold." The Latin inscription made me laugh. "This inscription," said I, "contains an insulting jest; it is almost burlesque, for the gravity of an inscription should not allow of laughter....