Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index.
Contents
The persistence of salons -- Between the republic of letters and the Grand monde -- Liberals and emigrés (1789-1799) -- Ralliés and exiles (1799-1815) -- Le pays féminin (1815-1848) -- Salons and Salonnières in the politics of the restoration and the July monarchy -- The decline of salons (1830-1848) -- Nostalgia, or the limits of aristocratic feminism.