The Impressionists had to arrange their own art exhibitions because their works were routinely rejected by the Paris Salon. How many of you have heard of the Paris Salon?

印象派画家一直都是只能自己筹办画展，因为他们的作品一般都会被巴黎沙龙拒绝的。但是，我们中有多少人听说过巴黎沙龙呢？

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After a hostile reception by critics at the Paris salon of 1839, Wiertz published a furious call for Brussels to “rise up” and become “capital of Europe”, leaving Paris a mere “provincial” town.

1893年，就在Wiertz的作品在巴黎的画展沙龙遭受到敌对评论家批评后，他强烈号召布鲁塞尔“崛起”并成为“欧洲之都”，让巴黎仅仅成为“省城”。

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You can have a painting or sculpture in the salon and go back to your home country, saying you've been a success in Paris.

你可以在沙龙上展示一幅画或者雕塑，然后回到祖国说你在巴黎很成功。

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Degas and the other artists had decided that they would no longer follow the rules and restrictions of the Paris Salon.

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In eighteen sixty-eight, one of Mary Cassatt's paintings was accepted into the Paris Salon.

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Cassatt continued to have her works accepted in the Paris Salon.

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But it is alive also with the world of the Paris salon and the glittering connections of a most sociable diplomat.

ECONOMIST: Talleyrand

The idea of hospitality provides a link, often quite tenuous, between a series of entertaining historical anecdotes, as Mr Browner ranges broadly from Petronius to Adolf Hitler via the court of Louis XIV, the log cabin of John James Audubon and the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein.

ECONOMIST: Hospitality

But the proof of the pudding comes in the tasting - and the French have already given it a food award at the Paris International Food Salon.

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