The book offered to the reader touches upon phenomena of Western culture that are different both in time and in subject. It deals with the activities of French salons of the 17th century, the theoretical and aesthetic constructions of the largest poet of France of the 20th century, Paul Valerie, the works of popular biographers Henri Perruchot, Theodore Valency, Andre Mauroy, who told about the artist Edouard Mans, composer Hector Berlioz, writer Georges Sand.