Salons [ Associational culture ]
… nevertheless a defining feature of social life in the Ancien Régime , with hundreds of salons taking place throughout Paris. These weekly gatherings featured a mixed-gendered group of aristocrats, artists, and men of letters. The salons … relation whatsoever to the project of Enlightenment. 5 . Antoine Lilti, Le monde des salons: Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Fayard, 2005) p. 15-16. There were hundreds of salons taking place throughout Paris in the eighteenth century. In …
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