Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment : the Abbé Conti and the Comte de Caylus
A French Alcibiades and his English Plato : Anthony Hamilton and the Comte de Gramont
An English Cicero in the France of Louis XIV : Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
The French Achilles of the Hapsburgs : Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan
Lelio and Marivaux
Louis XV's condottiere : Herman-Maurice of Saxony, Marshal of France
Frederick II and Voltaire
Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Margravine of Bayreuth, sister of Frederick II
Francesco Algarotti and Frederick II
Charlotte-Sophie d'Aldenburg, Countess of Bentinck : "The Sévigné of Germany"
The Parisian model seen from London : Lord Chesterfield, his son's tutor
The Marquise du Deffand : From Voltaire to Walpole
Catherine the Great : Voltaire's eminent correspondent
Ekaterina Romanova Vorontsova, Princess of Dashkova : a Russian heroine at home and abroad
The Abbé Galiani : the warmth of Naples and the wit of Paris
Friedrich Melchior Grimm and the Strabismus of the Enlightenment
William Beckford : the author of Vathek
Goya, the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and William Beckford
Louis-Antoine Caraccioli and "French Europe"
Gustav III of Sweden : a Parisian from Stockholm
A romance in "The cyclops's maw" : Hans Axel von Fersen and the "Austrian woman"
Benjamin Franklin, Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen
A United States ambassador to the rescue of Louis XVI : Gouveneur Morris
A queen of England in partibus : Louise Maximilienne Caroline von Stolberg-Gedern, Countess of Albany
Charles-Joseph de Ligne : the last homme d'esprit
An Enlightenment test site : Poland and its last king, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski.