The Age Of Conversation
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Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners.
Conversation, which began…
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Have you ever seen Parisians on cafés terraces?
They drink coffee for hours while they are talking. French people like to argue, to talk, and even to fight for their opinions. This phenomenon so French comes from Le salon.
Benedetta Craveri, Italian historian, explains how the art of conversation was invented by witty Parisian women as Madame de Rambouillet or Madeleine de Scudéry who were ruling literary salons in the 17th century. Those women taught men how to be gentlemen and not smelling garlic.
I'm a fan of Benedetta Craveri. She explains well how the past lightens the present. Everything…
From Edith's list on French women according to a French woman.
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