The Age of Conversation
Salons
Women intellectuals
France, intellectual life
Sociale geschiedenis
Women, france
Intellectual life
History
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, the French nobility of the ancien regime turned their energies to developing the art of sociability, a refined code of manners, and an ideal of gallant, spirited conversation that became a model for soci…
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