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A’Lelia Walker’s Dark Tower Salons of The Harlem Renaissance

Jam-packed into a smokey, lavish townhouse on 136th in the heart of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, arts patron A’Lelia

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Queen B, Founder of French Salons – the Marquise de Rambouillet

Catherine de Vivonne, the Marquise of Rambouillet (1588–1665), brought the salon concept over with her when she moved to Paris

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The Drop-Down-Dead Ravishing Italian Sisters Who Salon’d Hardcore 500 Years Ago

Isabella d’Este (1474-1533) and Elisabetta Gonzaga (1471 – 1526) were sister-in-laws in Renaissance Italy who hosted salons that had a

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Women’s Role in Salon History

As salons developed and spread throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, women were able to cultivate a powerful