Salons [ Associational culture ]
… Image Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, ’Lecture de la tragédie "L'orphelin de la Chine" de Voltaire dans le salon de madame Geoffrin’, Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, MM 59.3.1, c. 1812. Image Philibert … Debucourt, 'Siècle de Louis XV. Une soirée chez Madame Geoffrin en 1755', Musée Carnavalet, G.5402, 1755. Résumé The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French Enlightenment. While scholars continue to … philosophical networks, as was the case for Madame d’Épinay and Françoise de Graffigny. (Lilti 93-98, 177) Some salon hostesses found a means to circumnavigate this financial challenge. Julie de Lespinasse, for instance, received visitors …
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