French Salons
Subtitle: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801883866
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: World; Europe; Europe - France; Social History; History / Europe / General; History / France; History-Social History; Europe - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: "In the good old days, before anyone had begun to think about national representation," recalled the marquise de La Tour du Pin, "a list of supper guests was a most important and carefully considered item!