Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th-Century France explores the place and importance of the 17th-century 'salon' milieu, which was developed and dominated by women. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth-century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
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Salons, History, and the Creation of 17th-Century France explores the place and importance of the 17th-century 'salon' milieu, which was developed and dominated by women. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth-century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
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