1920–25; after Madame Récamier ( def. )
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One particularly potent scene focuses on the 19th Century portrait of the Parisian socialite Juliette Recamier.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2018
Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the horror of events in Biafra unfolded, Kouchner became convinced that Recamier was right.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outraged, Kouchner and Recamier decided to organize their own pool of doctors who would put medical needs above bureaucratic procedures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then and thereafter she was Madame Recamier in name alone; Recamier tenderly watching over her, giving her every luxury money could buy, and observing with a total absence of jealousy her innumerable conquests.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
Portraits were up when I visited — Alexander the Great marching into Babylon; a sly-looking Louis XIV; and Madame Récamier, an 18th century socialite, on her deathbed.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
On one wall hangs a painting, by a high-school friend, of a coffin that has been bent in half and placed atop a chaise longue, in the manner of Magritte’s “Perspective: Madame Récamier by David.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015
In August, 1832, Madame Récamier with M. de Chateaubriand made a visit to Hortense, at the chateau of Arenemberg.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
We give the narrative, however, of this very interesting interview in the words of Madame Récamier: Interview at the Coliseum.
From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
The close friendship of Germaine de Staël and Juliette Récamier, even cemented as it was by the common bond of misfortune, is difficult to understand.
From In Château Land by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth
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