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  2. Historiography of the salon - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC) Historians tended to focus on individual salonnières, creating almost a 'great-woman' version of history that ran parallel to the Whiggish, male dominated history identified by Herbert Butterfield.

  3. Salon (gathering) - Wikipedia

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    Historians tended to focus on individual salonnières, creating almost a "great woman" version of history that ran parallel to the Whiggish, male-dominated history identified by Herbert Butterfield. Even in 1970, works were still being produced that concentrated only on individual stories without analysing the effects of the salonnières ...

  4. Salon (France) - Wikipedia

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    Historians tended to focus on individual Salonnières, creating almost a 'great-woman' version of history that ran parallel to the Whiggish, male dominated history identified by Herbert Butterfield. Even in 1970, works were still being produced that concentrated only on individual stories, without analysing the effects of the Salonnières ...

  5. Women in the Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 18th century the salon served as a matrix for Enlightenment ideals. Women were important in this capacity because they took on the role of salonnieres. [13] Salons of France were assembled by a small number of elite women who were concerned with education and promoting philosophies of the Enlightenment. [12]

  6. Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier - Wikipedia

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    A great friend and protégé of Madeleine de Scudéry, L'Héritier's participation in the fairy tale genre reflected her involvement in the salon scene, as she and so many of her friends and fellow salonnières, such as Madame d'Aulnoy and Henriette-Julie de Murat, were members of les conteuses.

  7. Marie Thérèse Geoffrin - Wikipedia

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    Janet Burke and Margaret Jacob write that by placing only, "a handful of selfless salonnières (such as Geoffrin) at the centre of Enlightenment history, Goodman is effectively obliterating a wider version of the Enlightenment cultural practices as well as downgrading "all other seemingly enlightened woman."

  8. List of museums on Long Island - Wikipedia

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    Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages: Stony Brook: Suffolk Multiple American art, Long Island history, over 200 horse-drawn carriages Long Island Psychiatric Museum: West Brentwood: Suffolk Medical

  9. List of museums in Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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    Experience Music Project. This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.