Jean-Louis Flandrin, Jane Cobbi

Meals of the Past, Meals of the World

Jean-Louis Flandrin

The Order of Serving Food

Anne Lombard-Jourdan

The Origins of Carnival

Armand Laferrère

Politics of the Bible

The Bible is not just a spiritual treasure it is also a political manual for our times.

Anne-Marie Lugan Dardigna

Women of Literary Salon Feminism and the Literary Salon: Women in 18th-Century France

In France, the struggle for women’s rights is a very ancient one. In the 17th and 18th centuries it found expression in literary salons led by such famous figures as Madame de Tencin, Madame du Deffant, Madame Geoffrin and later by Madame du Châtelet and Madame d’Epinay.