Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… 1792), p. 80. 17 . A cultural establishment that delivered lectures in various disciplines. It was open to both sexes and promoted liberty, equality and cosmopolitanism. See LF I,2,18. 18 . In LF I,1,2-3, she described the Fête de la … till night […] At the Athénée, a long established literary institution, nothing attracts so brilliant a crowd of both sexes as the discussion of some political question by M. Benjamin Constant’, Letters on the Events Which Have Passed in …
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