George Heppelwhite is famous for making what in the 18th century?
Paris in the 18th century a favorite, of a mistress, of foolish expenditures, and the prodigality of a King, which soon exhausted a bank and… undermined the Kingdom.". The ruined finances of the kingdom, and the dismissal by Louis XVI of his finance minister, the Swiss-born Jacques Necker, led Paris directly into the French Revolution in 1789. During the 18th century, French royal workshops produced jewelry, snuff boxes, watches, porcelain, carpets, silverware, mirrors, tapestries, furniture and other luxury goods not only for the French Court, but also for the Empresses of Russia, the Emperor of Austria, and the other courts of Europe. Louis XV oversaw
George Carter (18th-century cricketer) George Carter (18th-century cricketer) George Carter (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket during the 1740s, chiefly associated with London Cricket Club. He is first recorded playing for London in a single wicket match at the Artillery Ground on Monday, 22 August 1748. Carter took part in two more single wicket contests in 1749, both played for high stakes, and was then a member of Long Robin's XI against Tom Faulkner's XI at the Artillery Ground on Monday, 28 August 1749. As Carter had established his reputation by 1748, he must have been active for some