… a friend and confidant in her otherwise troubled life, and ‘frequently consulted him in several concerns of a private nature [and] business to which she thought his genius best adapted‘ (Goldsmith 100–101). Though popular amongst the most …
… The salons, as a primary practice of sociability in the daily life of high society, were defined by the aristocratic nature of life in the Ancien Régime . But the salons were in some ways an amalgamation of the many features that scholars …
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