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Marie Antoinette’s View of Love — A Maiden’s Fluttering Heart Hidden in Jewels
Born in Austria, and forever remembered in the storm of the French Revolution—Marie Antoinette. She is often spoken of merely as a “symbol of waste and extra... -
Lord Byron’s Philosophy of Love — A Poet Who Lived for Love, and Was Destroyed by It
In the early 19th century, when London’s fog still wrapped the city in its familiar scent, a man moved between the salons and the bedrooms of high society, a... -
Benjamin Franklin’s View on Love ―Between Lightning and Affection ―
Benjamin Franklin.Born in 1706 in Boston to a candlemaker’s bustling household, he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He helped draft the Declaration o... -
Mozart’s Philosophy of Love — The Inner Melody Hidden Between the Notes
Just saying his name seems to make the air itself lift and shimmer.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He began composing at the age of five and swept across Europe as ... -
Napoleon Bonaparte’s Philosophy of Love — The Woman Who Dwelt in the Emperor’s Heart
In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Rising from the chaos of the French Revolution, he would go on to redraw the map...
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