Salons [ Associational culture ]
… of letters to network and secure protections and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Enlightenment France Gaming Networks Patronage The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French … culture throughout the Ancien Régime , the practice has its origins in the elite society of seventeenth-century France. 1 . See the definition of ‘Salon’ in Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 6th Edition (1835): ‘Il s'emploie … Joan DeJean notes, ‘whereas most European nations at one time or another knew some degree of salon activity […] only in France did salons flourish without interruption for nearly two centuries.’ 3 Receiving her guests in her bedchamber, …
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