Rochelle Ziskin, Ph.D., Harvard University (1992), Professor emerita, University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the author of Sheltering Art: Cultural Quarrels and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris (2012) and The Place Vendôme: Architecture and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1999).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of MapsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Two virtuoses, Mme Doublet and Mme Geoffrin1 Mme Doublet, Bachaumont and “the Parish”1 The Maison Doublet in 17222 The Parish: “Learned Men of All Kinds”3 The Maison Doublet, Breuilpont and “the Parish”4 The Boyer Brothers and the Parish5 “La jolie tête” and “les deux frères:” The Ferriol6 “The Good Doctor,” “Sage Mairan” and Sainte-Palaye7 The “Five abbés”8 An Outpost of the Palais-Royal2 Shaping Taste, Academic Reform, and Saving the Louvre1 Reinvigorating the Academy2 Artists in Paris ca. 17503 Saving the Louvre4 Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l’architecture (1751)3 Politics, Art, Journalism, and Bonds of Friendship at the Maison Doublet1 Gallicanism, Parlement, and the Parish2 The abbé Laugier and the Parish3 The La Curne Brothers: Erudition and Art4 “La présidente de Meinières, Who Loves Letters”5 The Maison Doublet4 Wednesdays and Mondays: Mme Geoffrin and Her bureaux d’esprit and des arts1 Shaping Taste: Mme Geoffrin’s “Mondays”2 Caylus: Leading at the Academy, Presiding at the lundis (1747–1752)3 Who Attended the lundis?4 Collector Friends: The marquis de Voyer and comte de Vence5 Paintings, Manuscripts, and Books: Gaignat (1697–1768)6 Art and Social Mobility: Gaillard de La Bouëxière (1676–1759)7 “Patriotic” Collecting: Ange-Laurent La Live de Jully (1725–1775)8 “Nothing … but Van Loos, Bouchers, Pierres, Viens, Doyens”: The Collection of Watelet9 Other Amateurs at the lundis during the Fifties10 Marigny’s “compagnons de voyage”: Cochin, Soufflot and abbé Le Blanc11 Artists of the lundis5 Paintings Made “Under My Eyes”1 Antiquity, Encaustic, and “Costume”2 Mme Geoffrin and Van Loo: They Argued, … They Laughed, They Cried … and … the Painting … Was Finished3 Apelles Resuscitated: Vien and Mme Geoffrin4 Vernet: “Imagination” and “Fire”5 Laborde: Vernet, Greuze, and the Painter’s Revenge6 Vernet, Boucher and the petit cabinet7 Hubert Robert: Intimate Views of Mme Geoffrin8 Lagrenée the Elder and Mme Geoffrin’s “Clandestine Devotion”9 Mme Geoffrin’s cabinet de compagnie6 Epilogue: Mme Geoffrin: Advocate and Liaison1 Agent for the EnglishSelect BibliographyIndex