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Raphaël Six - Heralds Magazine

Extravagance or Boldness

The Ancien Régime – as the political and social system in France during the period immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 came to be known – was a complex era. In it, all the tradition forged over the centuries by Christian Civilization often coexisted with the worst foolishness stemming from …
Raphaël Six - 31, July 2025

Affinity

Portrayed by their contemporaries, the facial features of the two men illustrated on these pages – who, without ever having met one another, were perhaps the greatest antagonists in the 16th century – are impressive for their eloquence. * * * St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the prime of his …
Raphaël Six - 30, September 2025

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - The Man With Six Heads

Whether as a hero or a villain, you could say that Talleyrand is a fairytale character… Of princely extraction, born in an “enchanted land”, which was the old France of the Ancien Régime, the kingdom of good taste, etiquette and douceur de vivre,1 Charles-Maurice finds in his story a surprising …
Raphaël Six - 31, May 2025

You Have Won Us Over, Dona Lucilia!

It was raining heavily in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1968. Some followers of Dr. Plinio had travelled to that city to carry out a campaign, a term used by members of the movement he founded to refer to the organisation’s public demonstrations, always in defence of the …
Raphaël Six - 01, April 2026

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