Complex sentence: Parisian society compared Germaine de Staël and Mme Raguet to Minerva and Juno and named garments for Roman deities: gowns in were in the style of Flora or in the manner of Diana, not to mention tunics "à la" Ceres and Minerva.
Split into simpler sentences: Parisian society compared Germaine de Staël and Mme Raguet to Minerva and Juno and named garments for Roman deities. Gowns were in the style of Flora or in the manner of Diana, not to mention tunics "à la" Ceres and Minerva.