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Juliette Recamier
(1777 - 1849)
SALON HOSTESS
Registered
First Day Cover, postmarked Boulogne, France, 11 December, 1950,
backstamped
Detroit, Michigan, 23 December 1950.
Juliette
abandoned her husband to share a life in exile with Germaine de Stael.
Of
their first meeting she
wrote:
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Registered
First Day Cover, postmarked
She
fixed her eyes upon me and paid me compliments about my figure,
which
might have seemed exaggerated and too direct ...
from
this time on I thought only of Madame de Stael.
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