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AGE OF CONVERSATION by CRAVERI BENEDETTA
Category: History
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, whi ...Show more
Madame du Deffand and Her World by Benedetta Craveri; Teresa Waugh (Translator)
Category: History
Traces the life of Madame Du Deffand, and describes her relationships with French intellectuals from Voltaire to Montesquieu.
The Last Libertines by Benedetta Craveri; Aaron Kerner (Translator)
Category: Biography
An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during--and was eventually destroyed by--the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, "tells the story of a group of young aristocrats living in the last days of the French ...Show more
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