<P> Until the 1950s, some salons were held by ladies mixing political men and intellectuals during the IVth Republic, like Mme Abrami, or Mme Dujarric de La Rivière . The last salons in Paris were those of Marie - Laure de Noailles, with Jean Cocteau, Igor Markevitch, Salvador Dalí, etc., Marie - Blanche de Polignac (Jeanne Lanvin's daughter) and Madeleine and Robert Perrier, with Josephine Baker, Le Corbusier, Django Reinhardt, etc . </P> <P> Salon sociability quickly spread through Europe . In the 18th and 19th centuries, many large cities in Europe had salons copied on the Parisian models, although those were not as prominent as their French counterparts . </P> <P> Prior to the independence of Belgium, Béatrix de Cusance hosted a salon in Brussels in then Spanish Netherlands in the mid 17th - century, and in the late 18th - century, the political salon of Anne d'Yves played a role in the Brabant Revolution of 1789 . </P> <P> In Belgium, the 19th century salon hosted by Constance Trotti attracted cultural figures, the Belgian aristocracy and members of the French exiled colony . </P>

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