Company of the end of the bench
The Company of the end of the bench , animated by Jeanne-Francoise Quinault, was one of most famous the literary living rooms of the 18th century.
Miss Quinault gave dinners at it, Rue Holy-Anne then Rue from Anjou in Paris, where the best nobility was put on the same foot as the poets and the artists. These dinners took place Monday. Met there the most enlightened company - Maurepas, Honore-Armand de Villars, the duke of Lauragais, the duke of Orleans, the Grand Prior of Orleans, the marquis de Livry, Antoine de Fériol of Bridge-of-Veyle - and of the men of letters like Caylus, Duclos, Voltaire, Piron, D' Alembert, Voisenon, Rousseau, Grimm, Diderot, Lagrange-Chancel, Collé, Moncrif, Grimod of Reynière, Crébillon wire, Marivaux, Saint-Lambert, Fagan de Lugny, the Abbot of Enough the, the knight Louis Charon-Destouches…
In the final analysis, the company became so numerous that the dinners had to be held outside. The philosophers drove out the poets of them, cheerfulness disappears, and the company was dissolved.
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