Excerpt from Madame Mohl Her Salon and Her Friends: A Study of Social Life in Paris They say 'a pleasant salon.' The different terms both express and explain the different ideas they represent. A house is a home Where material hospitality is exercised; where friends are entertained With more substantial fare than the feast of reason and the flow of soul. A pleasant house is suggestive of snug, convivial dinners and sociable unceremonious lunches, of bread broken at various hours between the owners of the house and ...
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Excerpt from Madame Mohl Her Salon and Her Friends: A Study of Social Life in Paris They say 'a pleasant salon.' The different terms both express and explain the different ideas they represent. A house is a home Where material hospitality is exercised; where friends are entertained With more substantial fare than the feast of reason and the flow of soul. A pleasant house is suggestive of snug, convivial dinners and sociable unceremonious lunches, of bread broken at various hours between the owners of the house and their friends. Another nice distinction is that it implies a master, as well as a mistress. A salon calls up a totally different order of ideas. It supposes a mistress, but by no means necessarily a master; and it suggests no more substantial fare than talk, flow of words, and liberal interchange of ideas. It is simply a centre where pleasant people are to be met and good conversation is to be had. It may have - indeed, it generally has - its particular tone and colour; it may be literary, religious, political, artistic, or philanthropic; but it remains always a place for talking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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