Juliette Récamier

Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, better known as Juliette Recamier ( born December 4, 1777 Lyon, † May 11, 1849 in Paris) was a French salonière.

Life

Julie Bernard married with 15 years of rich and much older banker Jacques- Rose Recamier ( 1751-1830 ) and chatted for a long time a salon in Paris, which was an important meeting place for high society, but also the critics and opponents of Napoleon. The visitors included Madame de Staël, with whom she was a close friend, Benjamin Constant, François -René de Chateaubriand and the generals Moreau and Bernadotte. The latter fought as Crown Prince of Sweden on the Allied side against Napoleon. She used also an extensive correspondence with prominent personalities of her time.

Napoleon banished from Paris in 1811. Then she lived in Lyon, Rome and the Kingdom of Naples in the family Murat. After Napoleon's fall, she returned in 1814 and reopened her salon.

In her time was Juliette Recamier as one of the most beautiful women in the world and was painted by eminent artists, including François Gerard and Jacques -Louis David, who painted it on a Récamière, one named after her piece of furniture in the style of a sofa. She died at the age of 72 years, of cholera. She was Buried in the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris.