causerie

• In its own special division of causerie the thing is not only without a superior, it is almost without a peer; its insinuated or passing literary comments are usually as happy as its censure of vital matters, and even the above-referred-to heresy itself gives it a certain piquancy. —  Matthew Arnold
• In the hands of a pinchbeck Anatole France, how unendurable the review conceived as a causerie would become! —  The Art of Letters
• It hardly seemed a speech when he was at the tribune, more like a causerie, though he told very plain truths sometimes to the peuple souverain. —  My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
• "My causerie is half a column short. —  A Chair on the Boulevard
• Thus, it is a great accomplishment to be able to enter gently and agreeably into the moods and feelings of others, and to cultivate the feelings of sympathy and kindness Early in the seventeenth century the /causerie/ (chat) was highly esteemed in France. —  Book of Etiquette, Volume 2

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