The adventurer Giacomo Girolamo Casanova has often traveled under the name "Chevalier de Seingalt". This name did not allow him, Chevalier de Seingalt, to be interpreted by himself as a freedom he allowed himself because "our name is our own possession and the alphabet of everyone."
The title debuted in Solothurn for the first time in April 1790, after visiting the Swiss city of St. Gallen. Casanova writes that the local use did not allow him to think of his hometown of Venice because of flood hazard. Felicien Marceau points to the similarity in sound. It is also clear from secondary sources that Casanova was named in Solothurn Seingalt and hidden his true identity. In the memoirs, Casanova in the passage that his meeting with the French envoy describes "Casanova" and he puts the French envoy into the mouth of Seingalt.
Casanova traveled with a recommendation letter from French Minister Choisseul, the envoy knew this letter and Choisseul knew Casanova under his own name. Casanova explains that by declaring that he has been using the name Seingalt since 1759. This statement seems false and is one of the many riddles that Casanova gives its readers.
Casanova was particularly proud of his award in the Order of the Gold Rail and decorated with diamonds. Nevertheless, he did not use a corresponding predicate "Knight" or French "Chevalier" as a Venetian national not belonging to the Venetian patricians. His widely used "title" Chevalier seems to have been nothing more than a mystification. The name and the predicate were not used as pseudonym or pseudonym in illegal practices. Footnotes Literature
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