[MR] Calling cards -- Turning the Corner

[Karen Summerfelt-Hume]

(Vast snippage)

> Regrettably, Miss Manners does not go into detail regarding the history of 
> calling cards.  While we do know that calling really began in earnest in 
> the eighteenth century in Europe, I do wonder how the custom, which seems 
> to have originated in the East, came to the attention of the French court 
> in the first place.
>
> -- Magpie

Possibly because the French were so fascinated by a culture that could 
out-spiff and out-ettiquette them???? Just a thought.

Chagan
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