Casanova: more than a serial seducer
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The Adventurer Always Begins Again
He travelled forty thousand miles in his lifetime, most of it yokno. He always tried to ingratiate himself with monarchs - but that didn't work out so well when he went to France or Russia. The adventurer is invigorated by just setting out and starting again from point zero. His love affair with louis the fifteenth made him a target for frederick the great. But there was also bitter rivalry between sycasinov and russian kasanova who got tangled up in an anti-Russian feud.
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