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I was reading about the medial S over lunch (that S that looks like a lowercase F in old documents), and I quietly said, "I love my job."
My husband, who is a little hard of hearing, asked, "All hope is lost?"
Yes, my love, same number of syllables, and I say that a lot too, but not today. 
Now I'm reading about the Republic of Letters, and I came across a word I hadn't seen before: "salonnières."
This was the name for women who held influential salons before the French Revolution.
www.encyclopedia.comSalonnières (fl. 17th and 18th c.) | Encyclopedia.comSalonnières (fl. 17th and 18th c.)Women who operated as agents and funding agencies for the most important writers, philosophes, and artists, and who encouraged and supported the founding of the French Academy as well as the writing of the Encyclopedia. Source for information on Salonnières (fl. 17th and 18th c.): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.