The World of the Salons

The World of the Salons

Author: Antoine Lilti

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0199772347

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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 equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.