Can anyone remember a good one-liner from a movie, or show?

1. Can anyone remember a good one-liner from a movie, or show? French women in particular, began to invite educated guests to their homes for such conversation in the 1700’s.

2. Salons • These meetings in drawing rooms called Salons became one of the key ways that enlightenment thought spread. Guests often discussed the leading writers and thinkers of the time, and also attempted to add their own witty interpretations.

3. Salons • Teacher will now put you into groups. Each person in each group should come up with a French name that can be used to identify them when the activity begins. Have each group choose a female who will host the salon. • The host should assign each student in their salon to a prepare by reading from the text or another source the intellectual contributions of the one of the philosophies listed on the next slide. Each students should read about at least 2 philosophers. The hostess should also read about 2.

4. Philosophers • John Locke • Adam Smith • Jean Jacques Rousseau • Mary Wollstonecraft • Voltaire • Montesquieu • For the salon activity on Monday, each guest should prepare a short autobiographical paragraph so that the hostess might properly introduce them when the salon meets on Monday.

5. Salons • Some of the guests were nobility, but some were not. If you were educated and invited by the hostess, you were considered equal. But each person would strive to be the most interesting conversationalist. So, the conversation was a kind of contest. There were rules; some topics were taboo: • One did not speak of oneself • One did not ask personal questions or try to embarrass others • Everyone was expected to act as a lady or getleman.