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[[Image:Drawing by Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799) .jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Cenotaph]] for [[Newton]]'' ([[1784]]) by French architect [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]]]] | [[Image:Drawing by Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799) .jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Cenotaph]] for [[Newton]]'' ([[1784]]) by French architect [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]]]] | ||
[[Image:Therese_Philosophe_Frontispiece.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Thérèse Philosophe]]'' ([[1748]]) by [[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]]]] | [[Image:Therese_Philosophe_Frontispiece.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Thérèse Philosophe]]'' ([[1748]]) by [[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau, pained by Joseph Boze.jpg|thumb|right|200px|In May [[1777]], [[Comte de Mirabeau]], [[18th century]] French aristocrat was imprisoned at [[prison of Vincennes|Vincennes]]. There he met [[Marquis de Sade]], both of them imprisoned by [[lettre de cachet]], both [[libertine]]s; however the two [[dislike]]d each other intensely. They both [[writing in prison|wrote prolifically in prison]], both suffered from [[graphomania]], Mirabeau would write ''[[Lettres à Sophie|letters to Sophie]]'', ''[[Le Libertin de qualité|Le libertin de qualité]]'' and the ''[[Erotika Biblion]]''; Sade was incarcerated in various [[prison]]s and [[insane asylum]]s for about 32 years (out of a total of 74) of his life; much of his writing, starting with his debut ''[[Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man]]'' [[writing in prison|was done during his imprisonment]].]] | ||
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Two films about the 18th century in Europe are ''[[Ridicule (film)|Ridicule]]'' (1996) and ''[[Dangerous Liaisons]]'' (1988). | Two films about the 18th century in Europe are ''[[Ridicule (film)|Ridicule]]'' (1996) and ''[[Dangerous Liaisons]]'' (1988). |
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Two films about the 18th century in Europe are Ridicule (1996) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
18th century culture
- 18th century literature
- Romanticism, towards the end of the century
- Enlightenment, an 18th century counterculture
- Gothic architecture, the revival began in mid-century England
- Madame de Staël, She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Molly house
- European sodomy laws On the 9th of May 1726, three men were hanged at Tyburn for sodomy.
- United Kingdom
- Libertine
- History of subcultures in the 20th century
- Robert Darnton
- Enlightenment
- Novel
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Decadent movement
- Fetishism
- Petite bourgeoisie
- Orientalism
- European comics
- Jean Terrasson
- Pompeii
- Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Follies in English gardens
- the roots of European exploitation
Eighteenth century
- 1800 - 1799 - 1798 - 1797 - 1796 - 1795 - 1794 - 1793 - 1792 - 1791
- 1790 - 1789 - 1788 - 1787 - 1786 - 1785 - 1784 - 1783 - 1782 - 1781
- 1780 - 1779 - 1778 - 1777 - 1776 - 1775 - 1774 - 1773 - 1772 - 1771
- 1770 - 1769 - 1768 - 1767 - 1766 - 1765 - 1764 - 1763 - 1762 - 1761
- 1760 - 1759 - 1758 - 1757 - 1756 - 1755 - 1754 - 1753 - 1752 - 1751
- 1750 - 1749 - 1748 - 1747 - 1746 - 1745 - 1744 - 1743 - 1742 - 1741
- 1740 - 1739 - 1738 - 1737 - 1736 - 1735 - 1734 - 1733 - 1732 - 1731
- 1730 - 1729 - 1728 - 1727 - 1726 - 1725 - 1724 - 1723 - 1722 - 1721
- 1720 - 1719 - 1718 - 1717 - 1716 - 1715 - 1714 - 1713 - 1712 - 1711
- 1710 - 1709 - 1708 - 1707 - 1706 - 1705 - 1704 - 1703 - 1702 - 1701
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