… of directories left many clues, which help us to understand how they were effectively used by consumers. Objects > Print culture Mots-clés Collecting Elite Merchants Politeness Rank From the Restoration onwards, there was a close relationship … 10 . Jennie Batchelor, ‘Fashion and Frugality: Eighteenth-Century Pocket Books for Women’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (vol. 32, n° 1, 2003), p. 1-18; Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux, The Pocket. A Hidden History of Women’s … Their aim was to facilitate the daily interactions between new and old elites, to contribute to an inclusive polite culture. They also facilitated the rise of a public debate about the elites and their moral shortcomings. Adultery, …