Publisher's Synopsis
In The Women of the Salons, Evelyn Beatrice Hall (under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre) profiles major figures of pre-Revolutionary France, with a particular focus on the women whose famous Salons brought together crème de la crème of the Enlightenment. There are profiles for Madame Du Deffand, Mademoiselle De Lespinasse, Madame Geoffrin, Madame D'Épinay, Madame Necker, Madame de Staël, Madame Récamier, Dr. Tronchin, Napoleon's Mother, Madame de Sévigné, and the painter Madame Vigée Le Brun.
