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“Mariana” is about the passion between a nun and an aristocrat, based on a 17th century volume of correspondence.

But even though he brought Hollywood glamor to the White House, no one perceived him to be an actual aristocrat.

Timothy and Victoria aren’t aware that their sons have slipped into the type of libertine excess European aristocrats once indulged in.

She characterized those years in her autobiography as: “Desultory intellectual chitchat, drugs, hip aristocrats, languid dilettantes and high naughtiness. I knew I was on my path!”

Paine’s rebuke of kings and aristocrats was grounded in a democratic bulwark: fair representation.