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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… with women who, long excluded from independent economic and political activity, found in such rituals a sphere of influence in their role as the arbiters of taste and leaders of fashion. Early satirical plays pointed at the potential … can lead. The representation of gaming in literature contributed to the debates surrounding such practice, perhaps even influenced them. Gambling could also be a powerful means of losing an income, as Smollett’s hero finds out in Roderick …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Langlois who had emigrated from France, especially after the Revocation of the Edit de Nantes in 1685. These aesthetic influences on furniture can be seen in Thomas Chippendale’s famous pattern book The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Salons [ Associational culture ]
… The Johns Hopkins Press, 2007), p. 63. The women and men whose salons are most well-known today due to their social influence in eighteenth-century France each deserve their own dedicated article – and each has been the subject of many …
Enlightenment | France | Gaming | Networks | Patronage
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