Chapter 3 – Marianne’s personality
An aspiration to depict a historical personality in all their ambiguity and ambivalence is definitely a challenge, in the approach of which no method is too strange. After historical and artistic analyses, why not try an esoteric approach? So, I turned to numerology, learnt the basics and made the required calculations with Marianne’s date of […]
Chapter 3 – The Alliance of the Great Powers
A struggle for the balance of power forms the distant background of the narrative. For decades, Austria had relied upon Britain and Russia as its allies, seeing France and Prussia as its main enemies. In the 1740s, Prussia’s approach to Britain initiated a sort of political domino effect. Urgently seeking a new powerful ally against […]