A Salon-in-Exile

This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recitals, performances, and scientific lectures amid polite conversation, enabling mixed-ge...

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Main Author:	Nicholson, Annalisa
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 2026
Subjects:	European history French history Early modern history Restoration London 17th-century history Literary history Cultural history Transnational Gender history Poetry Performance Mazarin salon Plays Opera Memoirs Letters Society Correspondence Cosmopolitan French diaspora Women Literary criticism 17th-century literature Early modern England thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBD Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FB Fiction: general and literary
Online Access:	ONIX_20260415T184305_9781350415799_33
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