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« Wednesday November 18, 2009 »
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Start: 5:30 pm

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered the Casual and the Modern Home Began

Co-sponsored with Alliance Francaise

 Joan DeJean discusses a colorful cast of visionaries--legendary architects, the first interior designers, and the women who shaped the tastes of two successive kings of France: Louis XIV's mistress Madame de Maintenon and Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour. Their revolutionary ideas would have a direct influence on realms outside the home, from clothing to literature and gender relations, changing the way people lived and related to one another for the foreseeable future.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia

219 South Street 6th Street

Philadelphia, PA, 19106

This is a FREE event, but reservations are required. Please call Susan Gallo at 215.925.2688, or email sgallo@philaathenaeum.org

Start: 6:30 pm

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

In this first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court justice, veteran Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic introduces us to Justice Scalia, a conservative with a vengeance, a man who seeks to roll back abortion rights and affirmative action and who declares that he has never met a condemned prisonor who was wrongly sentenced to die. Marcia Coyle, Chief Washington correspondent for The National Law Journal, moderates.

 F.M. Kirby Auditorium
National Constitution Center
Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19106 

This is a FREE event, but reservations are required. Please call 215.409.6700, or click HERE

 
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