This article examines the modes of circulation and publication of literary works written by Madame de Lambert in the eighteenth century through her interpersonal relationships and social networks—the salon. During the French Old Regime, aristocratic women held salons which acted as places of sociability for elites within Parisian society in their own residences. By considering an epistemological viewpoint, this paper first questions the dominant perspective held by historians that the publications of these “salon women” were in decline from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. In order to analyze the relationship between Madame de Lambert's social circles and the circumstances pertaining to her capacity to publish her works, this article focuses on three elements: shifts in court politics, the changes in aristocratic groups, and the rising social status of men of letters. Finally, considering her refusal to publish her literary works as well as the differing accounts—made by her and others—as to why, one is able to note how Madame de Lambert responded to prejudices relating both to her sex and to her social origins at the time when she accomplished her intellectual self-improvement through practices of salon discussion, writing, and publishing.