“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 Heinemann, 1906. Vol.I & II

Essays by SainteBeuve, Translated, with an Introduction, by Elizabeth Lee, London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1902

The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, New York: G. Putnam’s & Sons, London: Freemantle & Co., 1902.


Image credits:
Juliette Récamier, Dessin A. de Farcy, CC BYSA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Jean Bernard (Père de Juliette Récamier) d'après une miniature appartenant au général Daudignac, CC BYSA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...