She writes, ``Under the guidance of Marie-Therese Geoffrin, Julie de Lespinasse and Suzanne Necker, Parisian salons became the civil working spaces of the project of Enlightenment.'' Goodman uses Geoffrin to argue that salonni*res in the eighteenth century represented a re-shaping of an existing form of sociability that would serve the ambitions of the women who ran them. Goodman states, ``In using the social gathering and transforming it to meet their own needs, Madame Geoffrin and salonni*res like her created a certain kind of social and intellectual space that could be exploited by the expanding group of intellectuals who were beginning to call themselves ''philosophers.
Goodman
Geoffrin