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Madame
de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France, was a devotee of art and
philosophy. Around the middle of the 18th century, she began
holding what became known as the salon. Salons were a sort of
high class cocktail party for socialites, aristocrats, and intellectuals,
where people demonstrated their knowledge of new theories and tried to outwit
each other. Madame de Pompadour held the most famous and best attended salons
in Paris.
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