Salons [ Associational culture ]
… Image Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, ’Lecture de la tragédie "L'orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin’, Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, MM 59.3.1, c. 1812. Image Philibert … Debucourt, 'Siècle de Louis XV. Une soirée chez Madame Geoffrin en 1755', Musée Carnavalet, G.5402, 1755. Abstract The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French Enlightenment. While scholars continue to debate the relationship of the salons to the Enlightenment, the salons were nevertheless a defining feature of social life in the Ancien Régime , with …
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