Historical figures in the books
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Bonnie_Prince_Charlie_by_John_Pettie.jpg)
Charles Stuart (I love the way the artist caught the haughty, disdainful expression on his face)
![Diderot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Louis-Michel_van_Loo_-_Portrait_of_Denis_Diderot_-_WGA13440.jpg)
Denis Diderot (French author, whom Lord John meets near the beginning of BOTB)
![Governor William Tryon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Tryon1767.jpg)
Governor William Tryon (colonial governor of North Carolina)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Louis15-1.jpg)
King Louis XV of France (as he looked in 1748, only four years after Jamie and Claire met him)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0CyQCk-2pjbKtVX6iAUgy2IqlRPFCpOwkbz6mAMC1aGK0T7piUP-AfH7Alxn4PBbcII1aC_0aG9kxflCM1ZOborD88gNx1hkJ6PKYkXPyeklNwYiFoa0_iAVVYhaoUF73SrpmF7pGfU/w315-h400/Saratoga+Germain.jpg)
Lord George Germain (Secretary of State for America during the Revolution), whom Lord John goes to see near the beginning of ECHO
![](https://cdn.britannica.com/15/77715-050-7917479D/Andrew-Bell-painting-artist.jpg)
Andrew Bell, co-founder of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (the nose is unmistakable, isn't it?)
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20120731005520if_/http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media_collection/18/PG%201162.jpg)
Flora MacDonald (pictured here as a young woman)
![](https://www.reversespins.com/pics/comtedesaintgermain.jpg)
The Comte St. Germain (apparently dressed in the robes of an occultist)
If you like these, check out my blog post from October 2009:
Historical Figures Mentioned in ECHO
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