… Brown University Press, 1971). Boulard, Claire, Presse et socialisation féminine, Conversations à l’heure du thé (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000)/ Bowers, Terence, ‘Universalizing Sociability. The Spectator , Civic Enfranchisement, and the … Brown University Press, 1971). Boulard, Claire, Presse et socialisation féminine, Conversations à l’heure du thé (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000)/ Bowers, Terence, ‘Universalizing Sociability. The Spectator , Civic Enfranchisement, and the …
… La Sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières: L’Émergence d’un Nouveau Modèle de Société (Paris : Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2017). Helen Berry, ‘Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Moll King’s … La Sociabilité en France et en Grande-Bretagne au Siècle des Lumières: L’Émergence d’un Nouveau Modèle de Société (Paris : Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2017). Helen Berry, ‘Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Moll King’s …
… Culture (London: Associated Presses, 1999). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, … Journal (1731) Taylor in the London Tradesman (1747) The Life of Beau Nash (1762) New Fasion Dress, 1789 An Imam in Paris (1826-1831) … The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic … Culture (London: Associated Presses, 1999). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, …
… Paris, Saturday 25 January 1766 I am much indebted to you for your kind letter and advice; and though it is late to … the Duke of Newcastle; and the latter, Madam e de Gisors, exhausts Mr Pitt's eloquence in defence of the Archbishop of Paris. Monsieur de Nivernois lives in a small circle of dependent admirers, and Madame de Rochfort is high priestess for … de Monaco, et d'Egmont, they have not yet lost their characters, nor got any. You must not attribute my intimacy with Paris to curiosity alone. An accident unlocked the doors for me. That passe-partout, called the fashion, has made them …
… has shown , sociability played a significant role in eighteenth-century societies in Europe, especially in cities. Paris and London boasted lively public spheres as well as influential intimate ones, such as salons, where ideas, taste … and sailors. Indeed, the colony’s entire population on the eve of the French Revolution did not even match that of Paris, which stood at 650,000 in 1789. 1 Image Legend Map of Saint Domingue, undated 1 . Historians differ over precise … Macmillian, 2006), p. 126; Fréderic Régent, La France et ses esclaves: De la colonisation aux abolitions (1620-1848) (Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2007), p. 117. European visitors and settlers generally viewed Saint Domingue as a …
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… All this very well furnished indeed for four-score pounds a year!! a. d. 1784. The showy valet was a Frenchman hired at Paris, the gaudy butler out of livery resembling nothing but a gold fish, had eighteen pence a day, and the man cook no …
… ‘two hundred women’, ‘all being in the state of nature’. 2 Using a common trope in travel-writing, that of cultural comparison, she cleverly relocates British sociable values – virtue, politeness, modesty and civility – from British … of Philippe Pinel and the interest for Brunonian medicine in Great Britain. In an article published in the Journal de Paris in January 1790, Pinel underscored the positive psychological effect of the revolution on the imagination – … leur tour d’autres effets nuisibles sur des cœurs pusillanimes & souvent ingénieux à se tourmenter’. 11 11 . Journal de Paris, 18 janvier 1790. Helen Maria Williams ’s Letters Written in France , published the same year as Burke’s …
… all Evangelicals, together with an unflinching faith, great dissatisfaction with the Anglican clergy, absent from their parishes and seemingly indifferent to the plight of the poorest part of their congregations. In many instances, it is …