Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an orig

The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equa

Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of

Biographical sketches of French women who participated in salons which reveal their intellectual and cultural influence.