… ( 1762 ). The Times , no. 1284 (6 February 1789).* Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 222-223 . In the … ( 1762 ). The Times , no. 1284 (6 February 1789).* Rifa‘a Rafi‘ al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris. Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831) , trans. Daniel L. Newman (London: Saqi Books, 2011), p. 222-223 . … Clothes … …
… the performance of sociability see Mimi Hellman, ‘Furniture, sociability and the work of leisure in eighteenth-century France’, Eighteenth-Century Studies (vol. 32, n° 4, 1999), p. 415-445. The pocket as shared space of female sociability … 9 . On gift giving and reciprocation in the early-modern period, see Natalie Zemon Davis, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) and Felicity Heal, The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern …