The Women of the French Salons
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It has been a labor of love with many distinguished Frenchmen to recall the memories of the women who have made their society so illustrious, and to retouch with sympathetic insight the features which time was beginning to dim. One naturally hesitates to enter a field that has been gleaned so carefully, and with such brilliant results, by men like Cousin, Sainte-Beuve, Goncourt, and others of lesser note. But the social life of the two centuries in which women played so important a role in France is always full of human interest from whatever point of view one may regard it. If there is not a ...
Chapters (22)
- THE WOMEN OF THE FRENCH SALONS
- PREFACE
- DETAILED CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. SALONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER II. THE HOTEL DE RAMBOUILLET
- CHAPTER III. MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERY AND THE SAMEDIS
- CHAPTER IV. LA GRANDE MADEMOISELLE
- CHAPTER V. A LITERARY SALON AT PORT ROYAL
- CHAPTER VI. MADAME DE SEVIGNE
- CHAPTER VII. MADAME DE LA FAYETTE
- CHAPTER VIII. SALONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER IX. AN ANTECHAMBER OF THE ACADEMIE FRANCAISE
- CHAPTER X. THE DUCHESSE DU MAINE
- CHAPTER XI. MADAME DE TENCIN AND MADAME DU CHATELET
- CHAPTER XII. MADAME GEOFFRIN AND THE PHILOSOPHERS
- CHAPTER XIII. ULTRA-PHILOSOPHICAL SALONS—MADAME D'EPINAY
- CHAPTER XIV. SALONS OF THE NOBLESSE—MADAME DU DEFFAND
- CHAPTER XV. MADEMOISELLE DE LESPINASSE
- CHAPTER XVI. THE SALON HELVETIQUE
- CHAPTER XVII. SALONS OF THE REVOLUTION—MADAME ROLAND
- CHAPTER XVIII. MADAME DE STAEL
- CHAPTER XIX. THE SALONS OF THE EMPIRE AND RESTORATION—MADAME RECAMIER
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