To this the salons of Madame Ancelot and Madame Récamier were a striking contrast.
The dancing of Madame Récamier gave me the idea which I endeavored to express.
Madame Récamier acted Andromaque, the interesting widow; but the critics were so absorbed in the contemplation of her wondrous beauty that they have left little record of her histrionic ability.
As great painters have many manners, so Madame Récamier had many salons.
The suspicion that Récamier might be was founded chiefly on the strangeness of their conjugal relations.
And here is a still more graphic description, taken from a letter written to Madame Récamier by Baron de Voght: "It is to you that I owe my most amiable reception at Coppet.
Louise de Cochelet relates as follows: "Madame de Staël and Madame Récamier had begged permission of the queen to visit her, for the purpose of tendering their thanks.
Queen Hortense had espoused the cause of Madame de Staël and of Madame Récamier with generous warmth.
For a time Madame Récamier seemed dazzled with this splendid proposal, and she even wrote to the old banker, her husband, asking for a divorce from him.
Récamier bought the house which had Récamier belonged to Necker, in what is now the Chaussée d'Antin.
Nor did the friendship between Madame Récamier and the Due de Montmorency, the political rival of Châteaubriand, weaken the love of the latter or create jealousy, a proof of his noble character.
It was a very brilliant entertainment, one of the last in which Madame Récamier presided as a queen of society.
Récamier as a very selfish man, to appeal to the feelings and honor of his wife, and thus deprive her of a splendid destiny.
It was the friendships of Madame Récamier with distinguished men and women which made her famous more than her graces and beauty.
In having pursued such a course, Madame Récamier must have known that she was the indirect cause of her husband's failure.
This led to an acquaintance between Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël, which soon ripened into friendship.
Monsieur de Camier suddenly, as he turned to the Baron, who was riding behind him.
Monsieur de Camier as he parted the foliage, which had prevented the head from being seen until then, for he recognized the workman's livid, swollen features.
De Camier has already made an observation about your preoccupied demeanor.
They soon rejoined the cart which carried several of the hunters, and which Monsieur de Camier drove with the assurance of a professional coachman.
Madame Récamier has no more taken the veil than I have, and is as little likely to do it.
It is a fascinating history, for Madame Récamier was altogether as anomalous as any creation of French fiction.
It was felt that Mrs. Peters as Madame Récamier and her protégé as Chateaubriand did less than justice to their several parts.
Here she would play the part of Madame Récamier to the Chateaubriand of a Bath Oliver!
Madame Récamier wished to retire, but the Curé would not hear of it.
Madame Récamier and her host attacked the trout, the sauce served with which betrayed a skilful hand, the countenance of the Curé the while showing satisfaction.
Finally, the charming Madame Récamier took her leave, and told all her friends of the delicious omelet which she had seen and partaken of.
Récamier and Josephine, the two women of the Napoleonic era who exerted so powerful an influence upon the social and political fortunes of France.
Récamier and De Montmorency, who continued to visit Mme.
Récamier are left to us: one by her passionate but unsuccessful lover, Benjamin Constant, picturing her as the personification of attractiveness; the other by M.
Récamier returned to Paris and, her husband's fortune being restored, gathered about her all the great nobles of the ancient régime.
My knowledge of this intimacy induced me to take advantage of the occasion, and I ventured to ask Madame Récamier if Madame de Staël had in truth intended to draw her own character in that of Corinne.
I remarked to Madame Récamier that few romances had ever had the honour of being illustrated by such a picture as this of Gérard, and that, from many circumstances, her pleasure in possessing it must be very great.
Madame Récamier admits morning visits from a limited number of persons, whose names are given to the servant attending in the ante-room, every day from four till six.
With the aid of Madame Récamier and Baedeker's Paris, which you will find in the library, it will be your own fault if when you arrive there you resemble a great many less fortunate women who don't know what they want.
But Madame Récamier appeared very sorry for it, though nobody else did; and admirable as M.
This lady sat between me and Madame Récamier on one sofa; M.
Madame Récamier was to feel yet more severely the effects of the Emperor's displeasure.
But, disregarding this warning, Madame Récamier persisted in going to Coppet, and though she only remained one night there, she was exiled forty leagues from Paris.
From Monsieur Récamier she exacted a promise to engage in no more speculations, while she supplied his wants.
Much sympathy has been lavished upon Madame Récamier on account of this marriage, and her extreme youth is urged as an excuse for this false step of her life.
Monsieur Récamier was a tall, vigorous, handsome man, of easy, agreeable manners.
Madame Récamier was both generous and charitable, and had dispensed her benefits with an open hand.
Monsieur Récamier died at the advanced age of eighty.
If Madame Récamier listened with politic calmness to these disgraceful overtures, she gave Fouché no encouragement.
And Madame Récamier had not tired of herself, or of the world.
When the blow fell, Monsieur Récamier met it manfully.
It was this bitterness with which Madame Récamier had to contend, for his literary successes did not console him for his political disappointments, and his temper, never very equable, was now more variable and uncertain.
Récamier drew all the wit and fashion of Paris to her little brick-floored rooms in the old Abbey.
During the illness of Consalvi, Madame Récamier shared all the hopes, fears, and distresses of the duchess.
The persistence of an affection so profound and so pure as that of Madame Récamier bore its proper fruit, and ended by subduing Chateaubriand.
Madame de Boigne, too, was joined with Madame Récamier in a relation of respect and affection truly profound and vivid.
The power and charm of Madame Récamier were not merely in her ravishing beauty, imperturbable good nature, and all-subduing graciousness, but also in her mind and character.
Madame Récamier was a dazzling personification of physical loveliness, united with the perfection of mental harmony.
After the decease of his wife, Chateaubriand besought Madame Récamier to marry him.
History scarcely affords a finer instance of the ministrations of womanhood to soothe the woes and supply the wants of man than is exhibited in the relation of Madame Récamier and Chateaubriand.
The letters of Ballanche to Madame Récamier are charming in their originality.
The spell of Madame Récamier lay in her irresistible personal beauty, grace, and graciousness; that of Madame Swetchine, in her unquestionable greatness and goodness and simplicity.
Weary, scorched by the sun, De Staël and Récamier protested that they would go no farther.
Whereupon Camierpoured her out a gobletful and passed it over to her, which, with a pretty little bow and grimace, she took, drinking our healths saucily a moment later.
The chevalier took the vacant chair she had quitted, though no one invited him to do so, his company not being desired by any of us, and Pontgibaud, calling for a deck of cards, challenged Camier to a game of piquet.
And here is a still more graphic description, taken from a letter written to Madame Récamier by Baron de Voght: ‘It is to you that I owe my most amiable reception at Coppet.
Récamier put herself so prodigiously out of her way; she who was indolent became active; she who was utterly insensible to children became maternal; she who was of delicate health underwent what only a vigorous constitution would undertake.
Récamier had been reputed beautiful, and her sole occupation then was to do the honors of her beauty.
Récamier had for the idol of her shrine at the Abbaye aux Bois M.
Récamier achieved her greatest conquests, and continued to draw around her almost all the eminent men of our epoch.
Madame Récamier is curious as the arch-type of this race, so purely, thoroughly, exclusively Parisian.
Récamier spent her last quarter of a century) the somewhat austere deportment of the siècle de Louis XIV.
Récamier is one of a totally different order, and the world-wide renown of which may make it interesting to the reader of whatever country.
Madame Récamier was so charming that when she passed around the box at the Church St. Roche in Paris, twenty thousand francs were put into it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
