Salons [ Associational culture ]
… to Social Mathematics (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1975), p.17. Salons would also often include various genres of entertainment, such as theater, gambling, oral readings of new literary texts or recently received letters, and of … the salons were in some ways an amalgamation of the many features that scholars highlight today. Salons were spaces of entertainment, gambling, games, and suppers, spaces of networking, spaces for sharing new literary works, and spaces for …
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