Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Maps Abbreviations Introduction: Two virtuoses, Mme Doublet and Mme Geoffrin 1 Mme Doublet, Bachaumont and "the Parish" 1 The Maison Doublet in 1722 2 The Parish: "Learned Men of All Kinds" 3 The Maison Doublet, Breuilpont and "the Parish" 4 The Boyer Brothers and the Parish 5 "La jolie tête" and "les deux frères:" The Ferriol 6 "The Good Doctor," "Sage Mairan" and Sainte-Palaye 7 The "Five abbés" 8 An Outpost of the Palais-Royal2 Shaping Taste, Academic Reform, and Saving the Louvre 1 Reinvigorating the Academy 2 Artists in Paris ca. 1750 3 Saving the Louvre 4 Essai sur la peinture, la sculpture et l'architecture (1751)3 Politics, Art, Journalism, and Bonds of Friendship at the Maison Doublet 1 Gallicanism, Parlement, and the Parish 2 The abbé Laugier and the Parish 3 The La Curne Brothers: Erudition and Art 4 "La présidente de Meinières, Who Loves Letters" 5 The Maison Doublet4 Wednesdays and Mondays: Mme Geoffrin and Her bureaux d'esprit and des arts 1 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 Vence 5 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 Watelet 9 Other Amateurs at the lundis during the Fifties 10 Marigny's "compagnons de voyage": Cochin, Soufflot and abbé Le Blanc 11 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 Finished 3 Apelles Resuscitated: Vien and Mme Geoffrin 4 Vernet: "Imagination" and "Fire" 5 Laborde: Vernet, Greuze, and the Painter's Revenge 6 Vernet, Boucher and the petit cabinet 7 Hubert Robert: Intimate Views of Mme Geoffrin 8 Lagrenée the Elder and Mme Geoffrin's "Clandestine Devotion" 9 Mme Geoffrin's cabinet de compagnie6 Epilogue: Mme Geoffrin: Advocate and Liaison 1 Agent for the English Select Bibliography Index.