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Madame Juliette Récamier Part Two
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Apr 25, 2025 at 9:00 am.
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In Part One we explored Juliette’s childhood, her eventual move to Paris, and her mother’s careful grooming of her, helping Juliette blossom into an impressive young woman. We then explored Juliette’s marriage to Jacques Récamier, her rise as Paris’s most beloved society woman, Lucien and Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempts to win Juliette’s heart over, and finally, her magical first encounter with Madame Germaine de Staël.
In Part Two we finish Juliette's story and honor her immense legacy as a forward-thinking woman who took ownership of her own beauty and used it as a means of power, who drove some of the most powerful men in European history wild with desire, who dared to love not only another woman but one of the greatest feminists of her day, who influenced some of the biggest artists, writers, philosophers, and politicians of the 19th century, and who inspired all with the goodness of her heart.