… a meeting and mingling place for different social groups, including merchants, apprentices, office-holders or state officials. The social composition of the Restoration audience has remained an object of debate since the A. S. …
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… and brought together in one place gens de lettres and gens du monde , including aristocrats, high-ranking government officials, men of letters, and artists. (Lilti 66) Grimm described Julie de Lespinasse’s salon according to the … mediators and brokers between artists and writers, on the one hand, and the public of wealthy amateurs and government officials who controlled the state-sponsored institutions of letters’. 11 Salons were key sites for men of letters to …
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Republic of Letters
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… early modern society – not only philosophes and scientists, writers and playwrights, but also aristocrats, government officials, military officers, publishers, artisans, and merchants. 7 5 . Daniel Roche, Les Républicains des lettres: Gens …
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… these class and gender inflections, the revolutionary clubs did much to advance the Revolution. They pressed local officials to enforce revolutionary legislation. They rooted out counterrevolutionaries and mobilised resources to fight … sent out ‘representatives on mission’ to the provinces to marshal resources for the war and re-establish order, those officials often turned to the clubs to run administrative operations, such as military recruitment, requisitioning, tax …
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Politics
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… platform on which the candidates, their political agents and/or key supporters gathered, as well as various election officials, such as the sheriff and under sheriff (if there was one). The hustings served as a stage for the announcement …
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… Stephan Pütter reported from a trip to Pyrmont in 1782. 25 At the same time, more common tradesmen, lower ranking officials and others unversed in the proper codes or habitus were excluded. This made inclusion in lofty circles all the …