Salons [ Associational culture ]
… a mixed-gendered group of aristocrats, artists, and men of letters. The salons were social gatherings, involving conversation and games, but they were also sites for literary and philosophical discussion, and notably, for men of … and other précieuses like Madame de Sévigné or Madame de Lafayette. (DeJean 378-379) 2 . Benedetta Craveri, The Age of Conversation, trans. Teresa Waugh (New York: New York Review Books, 2001), p. xi. 3 . Joan DeJean, ‘Rooms of their Own: … of Literary Criticism, III: The Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 378. The art of refined conversation was at the core of these gatherings hosted by elite French women. Individuals amused themselves with witty …
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