Somaize를 통한 17세기 살롱 여성들의 분석

Analysis of Salon Women of 17th Century by Somaize

An analysis of precieuses provided by Somaize presents the characteristics of people who were a part of Salon in Pairs at the time of the enthronement of Louis ⅩⅣ. It points out the social status and occupations that are included in a salon, which is a specific elite society, and emphasizes that it cannot be clearly defined that a 17th century salon was a sub-court society or a place of democracy. The result of researching the social status of the fathers and husbands of salon women shows that most of them came from noble families; 77.2 per cent of their fathers and 90.7 per cent of their husbands. Although the important social status of salons is noble, the structure of the families of salon women is complicated. The rich bourgeois class, which acquired wealth in a new way and contributed to the establishment of centralism, entered the privileged noble class by being nominated as government workers, or by buying government posts. More than 50 per cent of salon women in the Somaize list came from new noble families with noble status or title and rank. People who enter into a new dominated class learn the culture of high class, its value system, and manners, through a salon to justify an acquired status and complete their integration into the elite class. Salon women regarded well-educated and intellectual conversation, and pastimes as important factors. They enjoyed literary conversation in a liberated and equal atmosphere, and considered the ability and merits of conversation participants as more important than their social status or occupation. However, there is a limitation to a salon, compared to a coffee house whose customers are common people as well as from the noble class or bourgeois, because its main customers are high class, along with some literary people or artists.