Salon Maurèle, the boutique’s book club, draws its inspiration from a lineage of women who shaped culture through conversation.
In 17th and 18th century of Paris, figures such as Madame de Lafayette, Mademoiselle de Scudéry or the Marquise du Plessis-Bellière created spaces where ideas could circulate freely.
Salons then where more than social gatherings in which one could start an argument with Rousseau, Voltaire or Montesquieu.
What they established was a position in which women formed a powerful and erudite force. Their contribution to the cultural and literary scene of the time was considerable and their influence expanded beyond the borders of the Parisian left bank.
Once a month, we gather around a book. We read, we exchange, we stay with ideas a little longer than usual. What matters is not only the text itself, but what unfolds around it, the conversation, the shifts in perspective, the subtle construction of thought in dialogue with others, wielding language and revealing more than just words.
The project is also a personal one. It comes from the women who have shaped my way of seeing things, those I have considered muses, references, presences. Salon Maurèle extends that dynamic outward: the idea that women can inspire, challenge and refine one another not only through fashion style but through linguistic style too.
Choosing to sit with a book, and more importantly, to discuss it, feels, today, almost countercultural. In a context defined by speed and immediacy, it introduces another rhythm. Slower, more attentive, more deliberate, just as we have thought Maurèle boutique.
At its simplest, Salon Maurèle is a book club or a book circle. In practice, it is a space for exchange and discovery.
Salon Maurèle is not about reaching conclusions and finding answers. It is about remaining engaged, thinking, questioning, refining.
We host it in-store, after hours. The setting shifts almost imperceptibly. What is usually a place of objects becomes a place of conversations. There is no fixed structure, no expectation of expertise. The conversation builds organically, through interpretation, association, sometimes contradiction. Where one reader would notice form, another would be set on tone.
Salon Maurèle is not about reaching conclusions and finding answers. It is about remaining engaged, thinking, questioning, refining. So join us for the next Salon Maurèle…
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