The Women of the French Salons

1891

Amelia Gere Mason's 1891 history of the salons and the women who led them, from the Hotel de Rambouillet to Madame Recamier: two centuries of French conversation, letters, and influence traced through nineteen portraits of the salonnieres.

Preface
Chapter I Salons of the Seventeenth Century
Chapter II The Hotel De Rambouillet
Chapter III Mademoiselle De Scudery and the Samedis
Chapter IV La Grande Mademoiselle
Chapter V A Literary Salon at Port Royal
Chapter VI Madame De Sevigne
Chapter VII Madame De La Fayette
Chapter VIII Salons of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter IX An Antechamber of the Academie Francaise
Chapter X The Duchesse Du Maine
Chapter XI Madame De Tencin and Madame Du Chatelet
Chapter XII Madame Geoffrin and the Philosophers
Chapter XIII Ultra-Philosophical Salons—Madame D'epinay
Chapter XIV Salons of the Noblesse—Madame Du Deffand
Chapter XV Mademoiselle De Lespinasse
Chapter XVI The Salon Helvetique
Chapter XVII Salons of the Revolution—Madame Roland
Chapter XVIII Madame De Stael
Chapter XIX The Salons of the Empire and Restoration—Madame Recamier