ton's wealth or social standing and, of those who did have such standing, she was the last to be deeply concerned with maintaining the standards of her class--no matter how she may have transgressed them in the relative privacy of some of her art. But, Wharton and a few others aside, Parisian aristocratic and bourgeois society was utterly indifferent to what these foreigners might do and tolerated the admission of few foreigners to their inner sanctums. Some interaction existed among the French and the foreigners but it was usually limited to those French men and women interested in the arts or in a little quick rebellion. For the most part, respectable society did not care at all what the foreigners did.
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