Salons [ Associational culture ]
… discussion, and notably, for men of letters to network and secure protections and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Keywords Enlightenment France Gaming Networks Patronage The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of … by the term ‘salon’ until the nineteenth century. 1 A pillar of French literary, philosophical, and aristocratic culture throughout the Ancien Régime , the practice has its origins in the elite society of seventeenth-century France. 1 … on the new works that writers would try out in the salons. As DeJean puts it, ‘At no other time in the history of French culture has literary criticism been so thoroughly integrated into the daily life’ of the social elite. (DeJean 383) 4 . …
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