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Where the reading happened. Roughly 550 coffeehouses in London by 1740, each a penny university; Masonic lodges and provincial academies; and above all the Parisian salon, where Mme Geoffrin fed the encyclopedists on Mondays and Wednesdays and Julie de Lespinasse ran the conversation. Shut out of universities and office almost everywhere, women controlled the introductions and effectively curated who was heard.