Age of Conversation

Name: Age of Conversation
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ISBN: 9781590172148

ISBN-10: 1590172140

ISBN-13: 9781590172148

Edition: 2007

Authors: Benedetta Craveri

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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 as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 508
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English