Salons [ Associational culture ]
… seventeenth century became the ‘archetype of French aristocratic sociability’. 2 As Joan DeJean notes, ‘whereas most European nations at one time or another knew some degree of salon activity […] only in France did salons flourish without … some salon activity continued despite the Revolution. Take for instance Madame de Staël ’s cosmopolitan salon of the European intelligentsia and émigrés at the Château de Coppet in Switzerland, or the salons that endeavored to resurrect …
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