The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers,

The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers,

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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