… Conviviality Dining French Revolution Prostitution Radicalism Taverns provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in eighteenth-century cities, emerging alongside coffeehouses as important multi-use … It contained a large upper floor ball-room measuring 73’ (l) x 33’ (w) x 36’ (h) with ornate interior mouldings in neo-classical style, and featured a pipe organ and a balcony where musicians might play when balls were held. The London … upon which a society operated. 8 . See Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, (London: Penguin Classics, 1986), p. 86-89, p. 93-117. Particularly in the 1790s, when taverns became embroiled in debates about the …