Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… especially in cities. Paris and London boasted lively public spheres as well as influential intimate ones, such as salons, where ideas, taste and politics were shaped. But did sociability also play a historically significant role in the … lacklustre culture of Saint Domingue to the scarcity of white women. He wished that they would play the role that the salonnières did in Paris. But white women in the colony, he noted, tended to avoid high ‘society’ and public venues. Even …
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