Salons [ Associational culture ]
… in 1755. In the tableau, all of the famous Enlightenment thinkers – Marivaux, Marmontel, Rousseau , Turgot, Malesherbes, Montesquieu, Helvétius, Buffon, and Diderot, to name a few – are gathered in an ornate drawing room to debate the newest … Deffand’s salons represent some of the earlier salons of the Enlightenment, hosting men of letters such as Fontenelle, Montesquieu, and Marmontel. Madame Geoffrin made her mark with her salon on two different days of the week – Mondays for …
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