Society & Reputation
Also known as: Society & Reputation
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Show in diary 2,881 mentions Thematic Tag: Society & Reputation
This thematic tag collects diary paragraphs where social life is itself the subject: a ball, a reception or a salon described and judged, rank and precedence, gossip and slander, being received or snubbed, reputation lost or defended. Marie lives in the world of the Riviera and Paris colonies and writes about it as an anthropologist and as a participant.
Tagging Criteria
- Tag a soirée, ball, reception or salon described, with attention to the company and the manner.
- Tag standing and rank: who receives whom, who is dropped, who is not "reçue".
- Tag gossip, slander and reputation ("les cancans de Nice"), hers or another woman's.
- Tag exclusion, snobbery, the social judgment of a family or an outsider.
- Do not tag a bare list of visitors or invitations.
- Do not tag a dress or toilette alone (Clothing & Fashion).
- Do not tag the music, play or opera of the evening (Music, Theatre & Opera).
- Do not tag a love scene at a ball with no social dimension (Love).
- The bar is that the paragraph is substantively about the theme; a passing word never qualifies. A paragraph takes at most three themes.
Common French Cues
- Nouns: le monde, la société, un bal, une soirée, un salon, une réception, les cancans, la réputation, le rang
- Phrases: "être reçue", "on dit que", "les gens", "rejetée de la société", "la haute société", "tout Nice"
- False friends: monde = people in general ("beaucoup de monde"), not necessarily a social event; société also = a company
Notable Patterns
- The Nice years are full of the colony's gossip and of the question of who will receive the Bashkirtseffs.
- Marie is at her sharpest on social exclusion: how the Riviera colony receives, or does not receive, her family.