Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (died 1849)

Juliette Récamier

19th-century French salon-holder (1777–1849)

Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, known as Juliette, was a French socialite whose salon drew people from the leading literary and political circles of early 19th-century Paris. An icon of neoclassicism, Récamier cultivated a public persona as a great beauty, and her fame…