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Literary Salons and Educational Problems

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“Sortez, Messieurs [les poètes] de cet étroit théâtre qu’on appelle la Terre, emparez-vous des cieux et de l’Univers.”

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This refers to the so-called regime of Moral Order, proclaimed by Mac-Mahon in 1873, a conservative reaction following the Franco-Prussian war.

  2. 2.

    The Légion d’honneur had (and still has) boarding schools for children and grandchildren of members of the order.

  3. 3.

    Frédéric Passy was an economist, a deputy, and joint winner (with Henry Dunant) in 1901 of the first Nobel Peace Prize.

  4. 4.

    A French bishop famous for his funeral orations, among which was one for Henrietta Maria, the Queen of England.

  5. 5.

    As minister of culture, André Malraux delivered such a speech in 1964, when the ashes of the great French Resistance worker Jean Moulin were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris.

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    The other two members in question were Poincaré and Berthelot.

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Launay, F. (2012). Literary Salons and Educational Problems. In: The Astronomer Jules Janssen. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 380. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6_13

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