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• Dinners at the house :
  
  To receive at home is a social obligation to which each woman should subject herself with pleasure.
  
  - Plan your list of guests by multiple of 2.
  
  - Try to invite people who share the same centers of interests and which are complementary well.
  
  - You Ensure that each guest feels a little special; mention some interesting facts on their subject when you present them.
  
  - Send your invitations from 2 to 4 weeks in advance in order to have time all to plan.
  
  - Do not forget to include a plan to go to your residence.
  
  - Create the perfect atmosphere for your reception thanks to a background music. You ensure however that it is not too strong.
  
  - Offer towels cocktail with the mouthfuls.
  
  - To lay out the dishes of service with various heights.
  
  - Try to minimize the distractions: Hide the remote control, disconnect the telephone and insulate the domestic animals in another part.

• Wine
  Some simple rules
  
  To adapt the graduation of the wine to that of the dish :
  
  - Light White - 8/10° .......... fish
  - Vigorous White - 10/12° ....... fish, white sauces
  - Rosy - 8/10° ..................... white meats
  - Light Red - 14/16° ....... red meats
  - Vigorous Red - 16/18° ...... game
  
  A general rule: the larger the wine is, the more the mets must be simple and of good quality.
  
  No red wine with a vinaigrette sauce.
  
  Do not pose bottles but carafes of water on your table.

• To receive personalities at the house :
  
  To forget only when one receives, one introduces the youngest person at oldest, and the men with the women, the French guests with the foreign host, the most familiar friends with the least familiar by making state of the occupations, social, artistic or policies of each one to establish between the guests of the faster and more pleasant relations.
  
  To draw up the table in the dining room or another place, just to change framework and to benefit from a a little special environment (fire of chimney, a little dark boudoir to profit from the gleam from the candles during the dinner).

• The tablecloth will call the colors of the plates, to emphasize your service.
• The flowers will be matched with the color of the tablecloth. Make deliver them a few hours before preparing the table.
• The candlesticks will be placed in order not to cause of embarrassment to the guests.
• The plates will be laid out to 1 or 2 centimetres of the edge of the table and to fifty or sixty centimetres the ones of the others.
  
• Forks and spoons
  On right-hand side of the plate, the knives (blade turned towards the interior) and the spoon with soup are aligned if need be. On left, forks, points posed on the table.
  
• Glasses
  They will be laid out in descending order towards the line. Larger (water glass), the second (Bordeaux wine glass) with smallest, the third (white wine glass). Water glass is already been useful (not very full) and the wine glass remains empty.
• The towel is posed on the plate, for the lunch, and is folded in triangle. For the dinner, it will be placed on the left plate, will be folded in rectangle.
• Ashtrays, although one does not smoke that at the time of cheese will be laid out near the plates. They will have, regularly, to be emptied.

• If the number of the guests appears impressive, a cook can move to carry out all the meal. A good delicatessen can also undertake all.

• The places of honor are for a woman with the right-hand side of the host, and for a man with the right-hand side of the host. If the guests all are on the same plan, the places of honor are allocated either to the people invited for the first time, or with the oldest people, or with those whose function is higher. One always separates a couple except for the young grooms of less than one year and promised in marriage.

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