Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… parties latérales de l'Amérique du Nord, d'après les dessins originaux pris sur les lieux’, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1812. Résumé Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability … spas in this period did not live up to the expectations of Europeans familiar with the well-established spas of Britain, France, or elsewhere on the continent for that matter. This is not to say, however, that they had not built an …
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