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“... sort of company, but would have to work hard to retain such friendships in the literary world. As Antoine Lilti points out in his fine new study, Le Monde des salons, literary celebrity of the kind Voltaire sought was adjudicated and calibrated on the Parisian salon circuit. He had a heady introduction to this aspect of French cultural life when scarcely ...”

“... writers and artists. But this institution also served some very serious social purposes, as Antoine Lilti shows in his new book Le Monde des salons: sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIème siècle.* It was a site for the socialisation of elites, for the negotiation of patronage relationships, for competition between different aristocratic ...”