Salons [ Associational culture ]
… included the presence of writers and poets, like the vicomtesse d’Auchy or Madame des Loges, the ‘first’ salon, in the tradition that we recognize today as constituting this practice of sociability, is commonly attributed to Catherine de … intelligentsia and émigrés at the Château de Coppet in Switzerland, or the salons that endeavored to resurrect the tradition in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century hosted by Madame de Genlis at the Arsenal, or Delphine de Girardin, whose salon was regularly frequented by Balzac, Musset, and Hugo. The ethos of the tradition continues to manifest glimmers in educated circles to this day, with individuals dubbing various gatherings of …
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