“You want romance, read history” – François Guizot once said. As you will discover, this dictum applies entirely to the story of our new heroine - Juliette Récamier.
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Sources/ Further Reading:
Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame Récamier, Translated from the French and Edited by Isaphene M. Luyster, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.
Madame Récamier by Edouard Herriot, Translated from the French by Alys Hallard, London: William Heine