. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. adame Recamier hadthe most pleasing ca-reer. Jeanne Fran9oiseJulie Adelaide BernardRecamier was born onDecember 4, 1777, atLyons. Married at fif-teen to the banker Re-camier, and endowedwith remarkable per-sonal beauty, she wenteasily to the head ofthe choicest society ofthe French capital, inan age when talent andaccomplishments wereheld in higher honorthan mere wealth. Her strikingly successful career wellillustrates the value of the art of pleasing, carried to its ulti-matum by untiring, conscientious devot
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. adame Recamier hadthe most pleasing ca-reer. Jeanne Fran9oiseJulie Adelaide BernardRecamier was born onDecember 4, 1777, atLyons. Married at fif-teen to the banker Re-camier, and endowedwith remarkable per-sonal beauty, she wenteasily to the head ofthe choicest society ofthe French capital, inan age when talent andaccomplishments wereheld in higher honorthan mere wealth. Her strikingly successful career wellillustrates the value of the art of pleasing, carried to its ulti-matum by untiring, conscientious devotion. Madame Recamiers figure was of admirable proportion ;her complexion mingled the lily and the rose ; she had dark,expressive eyes, beautiful chestnut hair, and a face exquisitelyrefined—the true mirror of a fine soul. Add to this, mannersand address of the most winsome sweetness, and a carriage ofthe most perfect grace, and it is perhaps not surprising thatthe writers of the time lavished encomiums upon her as uponno other woman. If she appeared on the street, crowds ran392.
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