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Title: The women of the salons, and other French portraits
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hall, Evelyn Beatrice, 1868-1919
Subjects: Women Salons
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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numerablepoems. It inspired masterpieces and corrected them.Its effect on the Encyclopedia alone would havemade it a literary influence without rival in thehistory of the world. But it was as a moral anomaly that it was mostremarkable. Here men and women, whose chiefambition it was to excel in corruption and to befancifully original in sin, were the first to discussthat purer morality and generous philanthropy whichare the boast of the world to-day. The rights ofmen were first realised by the people who most trodthem under foot. The Revolution was brought aboutby the class whom it first turned and rent. 152 THE WOMEN OF THE SALONS The uses of the Salon are over, and so the Salonitself is no more. It is not a good man who lies dead. It is rathera bad man who has wrought much good. It wereunjust to remember that his morals were the moralsof his age, and to forget that he originated ideas farin advance of it. So to this brilliant talker, with hislight life and fruitful thought, be peace.
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