Casanova: more than a serial seducer
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Aristocrat Y
He insinuated himself into the court and became friendly with courtier types. He met samuel johnsons, who wrote a great dictionary of the english language. And he had a gift for running into people or cultivating en he deliberately went to visit voltaire, whom he worshipped. For some one born not an aristocrat, he seems to have really sort of worked his way up to be engaging with so many influential and what we now know as famous people.
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