Paris / Turin / Milan / Naples / Florence / Venice / Rome / London / /
Company
Versailles / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
France / United Kingdom / Germany / Italy / Russia / Greece / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / Judicial Event / /
Facility
Grand Canal / The chateau / Arc de Triomphe / /
IndustryTerm
coach-hire systems / finance / energy / imperial oil / /
MusicGroup
Louis XIV / Various / /
NaturalFeature
Coniston Lake / Welsh mountains / Wye Valley / Alps / Seine / Scottish Highlands / river Angueil / Lake of Derwent / /
Organization
Maitrise / US Federal Reserve / Society of Dilettanti / Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture / Royal Academy of Arts in London / UN Court / /
Person
Nicholas Revert / Le Vau / Charles VIII / William Gilpin / William Cavendish / Christopher Thacker / James Thornhill / Raphael / Louis Hourticq / Colbert / Adam Smith / Nicholas Fouquet / Francis Dashwood / Le Brun / Thomas Nugent / Richard Chandler / Rebecca / André Félibien / Jean Cotelle / Henri Testelin / Thomas Coke / Robert Castell / Charles VII / Philippe de Champaigne / André Le Nôtre / Robert Walpole / William Kent / Gaspard Dughet / Marjorie Hope Nicholson / Nicholas Poussin / Charles Le Brun / James Boswell / John Milton / Chesterfield / Latona / Charles Heath / Philip Sidney / Guido Renis / Richard Boyle / Charles Du Fresnoy / Godfrey Kneller / Louise de La Vallière / James Stuart / Thomas Hobbes / Leonardos Renis / Robert Boyle / John Evelyn / Rosa / Horace Walpole / Burlington / Apollo / Eliezer / Claude Lorrain / Joseph Addison / Edmund Burke / /
Position
architect / secretary / historian / present-day writer / author / gardener / king / painter / amateur architect / poet / young artist / art collector / Princess / painter / architect / and garden designer / artist / finance minister / musician / Louis's finance minister / chief / /
SOME EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND M y aim at this point is to sketch some of the background to the philosophical and aesthetic