Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… has shown , sociability played a significant role in eighteenth-century societies in Europe, especially in cities. Paris and London boasted lively public spheres as well as influential intimate ones, such as salons, where ideas, taste … and sailors. Indeed, the colony’s entire population on the eve of the French Revolution did not even match that of Paris, which stood at 650,000 in 1789. 1 Image Legend Map of Saint Domingue, undated 1 . Historians differ over precise … Macmillian, 2006), p. 126; Fréderic Régent, La France et ses esclaves: De la colonisation aux abolitions (1620-1848) (Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2007), p. 117. European visitors and settlers generally viewed Saint Domingue as a …
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