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Dessein and his hotel (1768) [ Places ]
… along it to my room; it was effectually Mons. Dessein, the master of the hôtel, who had just returned from vespers, and with his hat under his arm, was most complaisantly following me, to put me in mind of my wants. I had wrote myself pretty well out of conceit with the désobligeant , and Mons. Dessein speaking of it, with a shrug, as if it would no way suit me, it immediately struck my fancy that it belong’d to some Innocent Traveller …
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Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
Academies | Art | Conflict | Dining | Exhibitions | France
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An Imam in Paris (1826-1831) [ Practices ]
… such as silk, calico or light cotton. When it is cold they wear a fur scarf [etole], which they put around their neck, with both ends dangling, like a mi'zar,' almost to their feet. It is also their custom to wear a thin belt on their dresses with a view to making their waists look slim and their haunches full. Witness the words al-Häjari wrote in his Diwan, though they depart from propriety: The one who wean a zunndr, if only I …
Fashion | Dress | France
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Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… of sociability. In the spaces of Gresham College, and later Crane Court, a wide range of individuals came together to witness experiments and discourse on matters arising from external correspondence. These social activities were integral … similar matters in the 1650s. Granted in 1662, the Royal Society’s first charter stated that the group were concerned with ‘matters philosophical, mathematical, and mechanical’ and that their work, through ‘the authority of experiment’, … three to four experiments for discussion at each meeting. In their first four decades, meetings took place most weeks, with an average of 37 per year, and lasted between one and two hours. However, fellows were sometimes accused of coming …
Civility | Cosmopolitanism | Fellowship | France | Gentleman | Science
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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… example of how academies came to be defined as spaces of sociability. This entry will explore Arcadia and its place within the broader context of a ‘Europe of academies.’ The various forms of sociability on offer in academies provide a … as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were established by letters patent—conferred on them a highly institutionalised system of … example) 1 : British literary and artistic associations, though labelled societies or academies, compared more closely with the informal Italian model. In France, academicians and the royal administration alike shared the desire for the …
Academies | France | Italy | Literature
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On our stay in the city of Marseilles, 1826-1831 [ Practices ]
… It was there that we became aware of the high-quality construction of this country’s buildings, which are filled with gardens, fountains, etc. The first day, almost without out being aware of it, we experienced things that were for the most part strange. They brought a number of French … of every plate they put a glass goblet, a knife, fork and spoon, and on each table there were about two bottles filled with water, a small container with salt and another with pepper. Around the table they then arranged chairs, one for each …
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… in Grenoble, but it was his membership of the prestigious cosmopolitan La Candeur lodge that brought him into contact with the Duc d’Orléans. The Duc was grand master of the Grand Orient de France , and Laclos served him from January 1789 … the French Revolution, and the Palais-Royal became not just his headquarters but also a leading social space. Freemasons with reformist ideas inspired by the Revolution would use the Palais-Royal as their meeting place. It is also where … as founder and editor of the Journal des Amis de la Constitution . Following the Champs-de-Mars massacre, however, he withdrew his membership from the club without resigning. 2 . Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Franc-maçonnerie et sociabilité. …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… – ‘never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature . It fell dead-born from the press , without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.’ 1 1 . The Life of David Hume, esq. … Paris, then Reims, and La Flèche, where he wrote the Treatise on Human Nature , and most certainly familiarised himself with French philosophy (Malebranche, Descartes, Bayle). This period was one of retreat for Hume, and of philosophical … the most eminent physicians and philosophers of the time. He was also a founding member of the Select Society (1754) – with Allan Ramsay, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Hugh Blair and James Boswell. A subsidiary body, the Edinburgh …
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