This concluding chapter is the fruit of a long-term collective reflection on urban sociability in the Age of Enlightenment. It focuses on the case of one city, Geneva, which serves as a counterpoint to the Parisian model discussed in the previous chapters. It shows the reciprocal adaptations between the emancipatory social practices that developed within places of leisure and culture such as cafés, circles and the theatre, on the one hand, and the policing practices that controlled or supervised the growth of these public or semi-public spaces, on the other. These ongoing interactions between the social life (vie de société) and the power have resulted in a gradual but far-reaching transformation of the ways in which people associate, assemble and enjoy themselves, in contrast to the abrupt changes signalled on the surface by the state of the law.