Madame Récamier : The Biography of a Flirt.
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TextPublisher: San Francisco : Borodino Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type: - text
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First published in 1940, this is a biography of Jeanne-Fran#65533;oise Julie Ad#65533;la#65533;de R#65533;camier (1777-1849), a French socialite whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century.
Known as Juliette, she was the wife of a Parisian banker 30 years her senior and one of the most prominent women of her time. Beautiful, accomplished, and with a love of literature, Juliette was shy and modest by nature. From the earliest days of the French Consulate to almost the end of the July Monarchy, her salon in Paris was one of the chief resorts of literary and political society that followed what was fashionable. The habitu#65533;s of her house included many former royalists and others, such as Bernadotte (later Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway) and Gen. Jean Moreau, who were opposed to the government of Napoleon.
In 1805 Napoleon's policies caused her husband major financial losses, and in the same year Napoleon ordered her exiled from Paris. She stayed with her good friend Mme de Sta#65533;l, one of Napoleon I's principal opponents, in Geneva and then went to Rome (1813) and Naples, where she was on exceedingly good terms with Gen. Joachim Murat and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, who were then intriguing with the Bourbons.
Following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 she returned to Paris, where despite her reduced circumstances after 1819 she maintained her salon and continued to receive visitors at the L'Abbaye-aux-Bois, a 17th-century convent, in which she took a separate suite and to which she retired in 1819.
"To be beloved was the history of Mme R#65533;camier. Beloved by all in her youth, for her astonishing beauty--beloved for her gentleness, her inexhaustible kindness, for the charm of a character which was reflected in her sweet face--beloved by young and old...such will be the renown of this charming woman!"--MADAME DE HAUTEFEUILLE
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- THE PRINCIPAL DRAMATIS PERSONAE IN THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE -- PROLOGUE -- HISTORICAL GLOSS I-BEFORE AND DURING THE REVOLUTION -- CHAPTER I-Juliette's Early Life -- CHAPTER II-A Delicate Chapter -- CHAPTER III-M. Récamier's Letter -- CHAPTER IV-1793-1798 -- CHAPTER V-Madame de Staël -- CHAPTER VI-Beginnings -- HISTORICAL GLOSS II-THE DOMINATION OF NAPOLEON (1799-1815) -- CHAPTER VII-Lucien Bonaparte -- CHAPTER VIII-No. 7 Rue Du Mont-Blanc -- CHAPTER IX-Foreign Visitors -- CHAPTER X-A Day at Clichy -- CHAPTER XI-Another Day at Clichy -- CHAPTER XII-Her More Private Life -- CHAPTER XIII-M. Bernard's Arrest -- CHAPTER XIV-Madame de Staël's Exile -- CHAPTER XV-Bankruptcy -- CHAPTER XVI-Coppet (1807) -- CHAPTER XVII-Prince August -- CHAPTER XVIII-Prosper de Barante -- CHAPTER XIX-The Party at Chaumont (1810) -- CHAPTER XX-Exile (1811) -- CHAPTER XXI-Ballanche (1812) -- CHAPTER XXII-Italy -- HISTORICAL GLOSS III-THE RESTORATION (1814-1830) -- CHAPTER XXIII-Benjamin Constant -- CHAPTER XXIV-The Hundred Days -- CHAPTER XXV-Interludes -- CHAPTER XXVI-The Meeting -- CHAPTER XXVII-Chateaubriand -- CHAPTER XXVIII-Mme de Duras -- CHAPTER XXIX-Chateaubriand in Politics -- CHAPTER XXX-The Abbaye-au-Bois -- CHAPTER XXXI-Italy (1823-1823) -- CHAPTER XXXII-J. J. Ampère -- CHAPTER XXXIII-Return from Italy (1823) -- CHAPTER XXXIV-Life in Paris -- CHAPTER XXXV-Chateaubriand in Rome -- CHAPTER XXXVI-1830 -- HISTORICAL GLOSS IV-LOUIS PHILIPPE (1830-1848) -- CHAPTER XXXVII-Paris in 1830 -- CHAPTER XXXVIII-An Autumnal Chapter -- CHAPTER XXXIX-Penultimate Years -- CHAPTER XL-The End -- EPILOGUE -- BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.
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