Hotties from History

Hotty from History #13 - Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard Récamier

It seems that anyone from the French Revolution or the period directly after it seems to be guarenteed a free pass into Hotties from History, and why is this?

I sat and thought hard until the point when I heard the cogs within my brain begin to whirl. The revolution overthrew the monarchy, obviously, and I pondered whether this gave breath for a wave of Hotties from History liberated from the shackles of Royalist heirarchy. I think to be a Parisien and suddenly not have a figurehead of style, allows for the new generation to fie for a new place in that society. Récamier was definately a person who suddenly represented the image of beauty.

As a muse she was fought over by neo-classical artists, where a portrait of her rests in the Louvre, her influence extended to all those her visited her salon in Paris, where she was said to cultivate the minds of the many interlectuals that paid visit. She raised Napoleon’s eyebrows after it was speculated she had Royalist sympathies, and in 1800 she was exiled from Paris where Récamier made way to Naples, and there made a famous acquaintance of Joachim Murat (HFH #12)

Alongside this she lived in suprisingly poor poverty, after her husband/father (wut?) sustained heavy financial loses.

Fortuneless, French, Fitty.

Tom