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Salon

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I read this in Salon, and it was in an article called How to Foil an Art Heist, and the person who wrote it is someone who advises museums on this kind of thing and galleries.

from No Such Thing As A Limited Edition, 2017-03-17 at 00:22:18 ยท read transcript

Other times Salon came up

  1. Yeah. We're calling it Salon, so we? Let's go with Salon for the moment. Let's call it for that. Because it was kind of French, so let's say a saloon, but with a French angle like Salon. Let's land on Salon. That's definitely That's what they're called. Salons, very popular in those days. She ran this, let me get to the fucking fact. 17th century London, she had basically this extraordinary book club that she ran next to St. James's Palace and all the ladies who were encouraged not to do this to have intellectual conversation, to read books and discuss them with each other to share their ideas, their philosophies, would go, they would drink champagne and they would do all this stuff together. and she was just such a, the article describes her as an influencer of the time.

    No Such Thing As An Especially Attractive Barge, 2023-01-26 ยท listen

  2. All the ladies in London used to come and they they had to leave the guns of the car and had those swinging doors and the piano player that would stop when when Hortense walked in. That's it. Yeah. We're calling it Salon. Let's let's let's go with Salon for the moment for that. Because it was kind of French, so let's say a saloon, but with a French angle like Salon. Let's land on Salon. That's that's definitely that's what they're called.

    463: No Such Thing As An Especially Attractive Barge, 2023-01-27 ยท listen

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