Title Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615 Julie Campbell

Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages) illustrations Series Cultures of Play Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Texts -- Introduction: Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615 -- 1. At Play in Italy and France -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Social Continuities -- 2. Marie-Catherine de Pierrevive and the Dames des Roches -- Proto-Salon Entertainment in Lyon and Poitiers -- 3. Antoinette de Loynes and Madeleine de l'Aubespine -- Entertainment among the Parisian Noblesse de robe -- 4. Claude-Catherine de Clermont -- Amusement and Escapism among the Noblesse d'épée and Royal Milieu 5. Marguerite de Valois and Proto-Précieuse Taste -- 6. L'Histoire de La Chiaramonte -- A Divertissement for the Circle of Marguerite de Valois -- Conclusion: Sixteenth-Century Société Mondaine and the Persistence of Entertainment Practices -- Appendix: Estienne Pasquier and His Social Network -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Fig. 1. Estienne Pasquier (1529-1615). By Léonard Gaultier (1617). National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Fig. 2. Marie-Catherine de Pierre-Vive (ca. 1498-1570). By Claude Duflos (1665-1727). National Galleries Scotland. Mrs A. G. Macqueen Ferguson Gift 1950. -- Fig. 3. Frontispiece, La Puce de Madame des Roches (1579). Douglas H. Gordon Collection of French Books, Small Special Collections. University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA. -- Fig. 4. Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-1596), madame de Villeroy. By L'anonyme Lécurieux (1571). Bibliothèque nationale de France Fig. 5. Claude-Catherine de Clermont (1543-1603), duchesse de Retz. By François Quesnel (1571). Bibliothèque nationale de France. -- Fig. 6. Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615). By François Clouet (1569). Bibliothèque nationale de France. -- Fig. 7. Frontispiece, L'Histoire de La Chiaramonte (1603). Bibliothèque nationale de France. -- Fig. 8. Estienne Pasquier's social network: Selected members mentioned in this study Summary This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and Roger Caillois, who argue that play is critically intertwined with the development of society, provide a theoretical path across these periods of women's engagement in literary culture. The barrister Estienne Pasquier, whose voluminous network of literary and legal connections permitted him entry into the society of such women, acts as an eyewitness to sixteenth-century circles. Ultimately, we see that the ludic activities in such society produced powerful influences that extended beyond the confines of the groups in question to shape ideas, attitudes, and activities-such as those of the salon cultural norms to come Analysis History, Art History, and Archaeology HIS Cultural Studies CULTURAL Early Modern Studies EARLY MOD Game Studies GAME Gender and Sexuality Studies GEND & SEXU Games, salons, France, Italy Notes "Amsterdam University Press" Subject Women -- France -- Social life and customs -- 16th century Women -- France -- Social life and customs -- 17th century Salons -- France -- History -- 16th century Salons -- France -- History -- 17th century Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800. Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. HISTORY / Women * LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century * LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century * Intellectual life Salons Women -- Social life and customs Spiel Unterhaltung Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600. Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800. European history: Renaissance. SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051438 France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051439 Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9048554020 9789048554027

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