Word: camier
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...advice. His earliest drawing (of a head) was made in 1789, when he was nine. By the time he was 17, he was a pupil in the Paris studio of Napoleon's court painter, Jacques-Louis David, and was contributing sketches for David's Mme. Récamier...
Wave of Honey. To judge from her portraits, she was handsome rather than beautiful and, from her letters, commonsensical rather than brilliant; she certainly had none of the literary sex appeal that marked her contemporaries, Madame Récamier and Madame de Staël. She was nevertheless remarkable for her courage and dogged devotion to her husband; as a patrician and a thoroughly unemancipated woman, she never felt released either from wifely duty or wifely affection simply because her husband was a confirmed philanderer. In fact, as Biographer Maurois tells it, in a somewhat simpering, grandfatherly style, Adrienne...