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Article: The history of the history of the salon.
- Article from:
- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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This article explores the development of an historical understanding of the French salon as an important cultural inheritance in the nineteenth century. During the July Monarchy and the Second Empire the salon, while remaining a lieu social, became a lieu de memoire for writers and scholars looking back to the ancien regime, either nostalgically or simply in the attempt, so characteristic of the bourgeois monarchy of Louis-Philippe, to reconcile the two French traditions, the aristocratic and the revolutionary. Several key figures in this (re-) invention of the salon are discussed, especially Victor Cousin, Pierre-Louis Roederer, and, above all, Charles-Augustin ...