… Choderlos de Laclos embodied all forms of eighteenth-century sociability. He frequented the salons of the garrison towns where he was posted as an artilleryman and was a member of the societies and clubs of the revolutionary period. He …
Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Fiction | France | Freemasonry | Republic of Letters
… were in some cases authorised by their owners or managers to sell the surplus from their ‘kitchen-gardens’ in nearby towns. Once there, they would pass on news and opinions to others arriving from different plantations. Information about …
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… 1, 6), theatrical entertainments (LF I, 1, 12 ; I, 2, 12), frequenting cafés , 16 theLycée (LF I, 2, 18) 17 and spa towns (LF I, 1, 23 ; I, 2, 21), experimenting with new forms of sociability through revolutionary celebrations 18 for the …
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