Salons [ Associational culture ]
… to secure protections and patronage from influential aristocrats, vie for official positions, and even campaign for election to the academies . At Madame Geoffrin’s Monday salon for artists, ‘Les gens du monde admis dans cette société, y … ‘antechamber’ to the French Academy, where the philosophes could strategically select candidates and campaign for their election; indeed, from 1767 to 1776, eight philosophes were elected to the French Academy, all regular attendees of …
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