… defender, though a somewhat ambiguous business ally. Their union marked the first step of her vertiginous rise in social status from a bourgeois woman of artistic origins to an intimate of the queen and France’s elite. 2 In the early 1780s, …
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… used in Bath to regulate sociability and mediate some of the potential tensions arising from differences in class or status. Instead, patrons formed their own groups which were largely self-regulated, creating a relatively easy affability …
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