You are cordially invited to attend a Grand Salon
Hosted by Madame Tawney Safran
on Friday, December 8th
In the year of Our Lord
Two Thousand and Seventeen
The rules of polite society will be strictly observed.
A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" (Latin: aut delectare aut prodesse). Salons, commonly associated with French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, were carried on until as recently as the 1940s in urban settings. (Wikipedia)
Questions to Consider:
1. What is your character’s definition of justice?
2. What is your character’s view of the relationship between government and the individual?
3. What is your character’s view of the role of the ruler as servant of the people, and vice versa?
4. What does your character think of the rights possessed by the people (such as natural rights, or equal rights for men and women)?
5. Is government is a positive good, a necessary evil, or an abomination?
6. What are your character’s attitudes toward such specific topics as religion, social classes, education, the right to revolt, and religious wars?
Sign-ups (1 character per class)
The following characters must be assigned first. Any extra students? They can choose from the list below.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
Cesare Beccaria
Marie-Therese Geoffrin
Voltaire
David Hume
Mary Wollstonecraft
Bernard de Fontenelle
Montesquieu
Francois Quesnay
Baruch Spinoza
Denis Diderot
Gotthold Lessing
Immanuel Kant
Frederick II of Prussia
Marquis de Condorcet
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Madame Geoffrin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Hegel
Karl Marx
Other Possibilities:
Up to 5 musicians
up to 3 Romantic or Rococo Artists
Catherine II of Russia
William Robertson
Moses Mendelsohn
Marquise de Pompadour
Alexander Pope
John Toland
Julie de Lespinasse
Baron d’Holbach
Georges-Louis Buffon
Hannah More
Claudine de Tencin
Joseph Addison
Samuel Johnson
Edward Gibbon
Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Joseph II of Austria
Alexander Radishchev
Thomas Paine
John Wesley
George Berkeley
Maria Theresa of Austria
Joseph II of Austria
Louis XV of France
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Adam Smith
Cesare Beccaria
Marie-Therese Geoffrin
Voltaire
David Hume
Mary Wollstonecraft
Bernard de Fontenelle
Montesquieu
Francois Quesnay
Baruch Spinoza
Denis Diderot
Gotthold Lessing
Immanuel Kant
Frederick II of Prussia
Marquis de Condorcet
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Madame Geoffrin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Hegel
Karl Marx
Other Possibilities:
Up to 5 musicians
up to 3 Romantic or Rococo Artists
Catherine II of Russia
William Robertson
Moses Mendelsohn
Marquise de Pompadour
Alexander Pope
John Toland
Julie de Lespinasse
Baron d’Holbach
Georges-Louis Buffon
Hannah More
Claudine de Tencin
Joseph Addison
Samuel Johnson
Edward Gibbon
Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Joseph II of Austria
Alexander Radishchev
Thomas Paine
John Wesley
George Berkeley
Maria Theresa of Austria
Joseph II of Austria
Louis XV of France
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Academic Articles:
Salon Life: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18salons.asp
The London Coffeehouse and the Parisian Salon: http://commons.colgate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=car
The London Coffeehouse and the Parisian Salon: http://commons.colgate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=car
Research Sheet
Enlightenment Salon Simulation Research Sheet
Use this to help you organize your research for our project. You will still need extra paper. You will be allowed to have these notes during the simulation.
Name of Enlightenment thinker/character: ____________________________
The background information (history, family, birth date, major achievements, etc.) for my historical figure includes:
Philosophical beliefs (what were the main ideas and beliefs of your Enlightenment thinker?)
My character’s opinions on ____ are... 1. the definition of justice
2. the relationship of government to the individual, and vice versa
3. the role of the ruler as servant of the people, and vice versa
4. the rights possessed by the people (such as natural rights)
5. whether government is a positive good, a necessary evil, or an abomination
6. attitudes toward such specific topics as religion, social classes, education, the right to revolt, and religious wars
Use this to help you organize your research for our project. You will still need extra paper. You will be allowed to have these notes during the simulation.
Name of Enlightenment thinker/character: ____________________________
The background information (history, family, birth date, major achievements, etc.) for my historical figure includes:
Philosophical beliefs (what were the main ideas and beliefs of your Enlightenment thinker?)
My character’s opinions on ____ are... 1. the definition of justice
2. the relationship of government to the individual, and vice versa
3. the role of the ruler as servant of the people, and vice versa
4. the rights possessed by the people (such as natural rights)
5. whether government is a positive good, a necessary evil, or an abomination
6. attitudes toward such specific topics as religion, social classes, education, the right to revolt, and religious wars