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...society is named for Marguerite de la Sabli??re, a 17th-century patron of La Fontaine, who turned her house into a meeting place for the literati from the court of Louis XIV. Sabli??re is also, coincidentally, the name of a nudist resort in France. Credit for the obscure name goes to Francophile Eugenia B. Schraa ’04, another founding member, who is also a Crimson editor...
...like, ‘Madame Sabli??re.’ And we were like, ‘Who?’” remembers Chavez. “But then we looked it up and thought it was perfect.” Chavez specifically didn’t want to pick an animal for the group’s namesake since it would be too “final clubby.” To make their unique status perfectly clear, they also deemed themselves a society rather than a club...
Right now, the club has six founding members, all juniors: Thebaud, Chavez, Schraa, Caroline L. Donchess, Brittany J. Garza and Maria S. Pedroza, also a Crimson editor. Sabli??re plans to invite 30 women to a wine and cheese function off-campus this fall, according to Chavez, from which they will choose about 10 more women to form a core group. This spring, the society will hold a selection process that will be invite-only and almost identical to a final club punch...
...girls are also using their Boston club connections to try and create a Sabli??re card that will automatically put the names of the members on the guest lists of exclusive clubs and give them discounts when they...
...Sabli??re also plans to throw open parties downtown, starting with one right after the selection process to introduce the campus to the society...