Nancy Mitford
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“If ever a house radiated cheerfulness, that house is Versailles." Miss Mitford writes of the palace in the middle years of King Louis XV. |
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Nancy Mitford finds that Carlyle’s biography of the King was one of the oddest ever written, but it is ‘so carefully drawn that it finally presents a perfect likeness’. In a separate article published in 2010, Giles MacDonogh offered his own historiographical analysis. |
 Nancy Mitford takes a perceptive and ironic look at the reaction of 18th-century French 'society' to the Enlightenment's great philosophe. |
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