Samuel Johnson described a second marriage as a: triumph of hope over experience So what about a first marriage, how did you find a soul mate? Well, at the start of the Georgian era marriage, espec…

The Effect of Melodrama, Louis-Leopold Boilly. French Painter, Printmaker (1761 - 1845)

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