The beau monde: fashionable society in Georgian London

'The brililant vortex'

Leading the fashion: 'A most brilliant shew'

Life in the town: 'All together and all distinct'

The court and fashionable display: 'Most tastefully spangled'

Politics and fashionable life: 'All the chatter chitter I heard'

Beauties: 'So pow'rful her charms'

Exile and fraud: a changeable world

London's little coterie

Appendix : Uses and meanings of 'beau monde' ; A supplementary essay.