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… from all over Britain were known to grace Madame du Deffand’s salon on rue Saint-Dominique.   Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both … from 1771 to 1781), and Count Ulrik Scheffer (the Swedish minister to Paris from 1744 to 1751). George Selwyn introduced Horace Walpole to ‘the blind old bat’ in 1765. She was 68 at the time. In a letter Walpole wrote in 1766 to his friend, …

… and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs like White’s and Brooks’s became favourite places for inveterate gamblers such as Horace Walpole, George Augustus Selwyn or Charles James Fox (see entry Betting book ). William Hogarth, ‘A Rake’s Progress’. … wore high-crowned hats with broad brims and adorned with flowers and ribbons, masks to conceal their emotions. 15 15 . Horace Walpole, The Last Journals of Horace Walpole During the Reign of George III, from 1771-1783, 2 vols. (London New …