ABSTRACT
Music! it is the great pleasure of this city, the great occupation of the drawing-rooms, which have banished politics, and which have renounced literature, from ennui'., observed the American in Paris in Jules Janin's book of the same name written in the early 1840s. The 'invasion of music' into the salons of the fashionable world, banishing dance was the topic for the first editorial of the journal Le Dilettante des salons, which first appeared in 1838. It is clear from reviews, diaries and letters that the Parisian salons were contributing to the revival of Paris as the centre of musical Europe, regaining the reputation that the capital had once enjoyed before the French Revolution. If their contribution was modest in the overall scene, the salons nevertheless mirrored the musical ferment that followed the accession of Louis-Philippe. The Revue musicale started a fashion for music journals in Paris.
