So long as you did not speak lightly of God, or of the clergy, or of the King, or of the men in power, or of the artists patronised by the court, or of anything established; so long as you did not say anything good of Berenger, or of the opposition press, or of Voltaire, or of Rousseau, or of … Continue reading Sundays with Stendhal 8: Social Etiquette in the Salons of Paris, 1830