Salons [ Associational culture ]
… au pluriel, pour désigner, La bonne compagnie, les gens du beau monde.’ In the seventeenth century, although many elite women hosted worldly gatherings that included the presence of writers and poets, like the vicomtesse d’Auchy or Madame … Press, 1999), p. 378. The art of refined conversation was at the core of these gatherings hosted by elite French women. Individuals amused themselves with witty word games like ‘rigmaroles’, which made composing rhymed verse into a … the salons were critical milieus of social networking. Salons were defined by the membership of both men and women, and brought together in one place gens de lettres and gens du monde , including aristocrats, high-ranking …
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