Salons [ Associational culture ]
… Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021), p. 108-109; Anne-Marie Feat, ‘Playing the Game of Frivolity: Seventeenth-Century “Conteuses” and the Transformation of Female Identity’, The Journal of … a place where the interests of both men of letters and aristocrats could converge. In Elena Russo’s words, ‘ Salonnières played the role of cultural mediators and brokers between artists and writers, on the one hand, and the public of wealthy … many of the female salon hostesses who maintained prominent salons over the years proved how critical a role they played in facilitating the connections between the gens de monde and gens de lettres, since without them – it seems – …
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