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Article: Salons
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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SALONS
SALONS.
The salon was a venue for intellectual sociability that took form in the seventeenth century and flourished in the eighteenth but only acquired its name in the nineteenth, after it had been supplanted at the heart of the world of letters and ideas by more democratic, masculine, and politically oriented institutions. In the seventeenth century the gatherings later classified as salons were called
ruelles
(after the corridor beside the bed on which the hostess received her guests) or
r
é
duits
(alcoves) or, as would be most common in the eighteenth century, were referred to simply by the day of the week on which they took place: Mademoiselle de Scud
é
ry had her ...
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