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    299 MADAME RECAMIER ,

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    a unfortunatel cruel quite kindness inexcusable y . she , some had not say she ' the with courage kep courage a t love Prince to of perform power Augustus and another coquetry in doubt ; and which as with to

    were , his fatenot for weeks only , but for months and years . Four , years later , she appointed to meet him Madame in Switzerlan Recamier d ;; did he

    not obtained come leave and did of absence not even from warn Prussia him in , time but to prevent his useless ' , mortified at her conductbut still

    j tinued ourney to . correspond He was hurt with , and her . He kept her portrait , near con him - he _senfr her

    till his deathand in the last letter which - —many , youth many me into ; - years Madame — the he wrote grave after , Recamier . , " he _" the Three had _' ring s conduct resi months which gned from the later you the hopes he gave charge died and me . of shall Nothing visions : heartlessness go of could with his ,

    heart excuse save the before supposition the latter that triump love hed and ; dut but y looking were long at all strugg the must ling facts rather in , and her weithe inion of those most likelto knowwe ;

    conclude ghing that , neither op love nor either duty could to rivet y quite overpower to break , the the vanity chains

    whi of a ch woman bound , or so noble induce a her heart and name to her or life . In 1808 Madame Reeamier took up her abode with her father ,

    occurred and Occasional his old to , diversif friend visits M . her to Simonard her life friends till . 1811 in and the it country was in the were summer all that of

    that year that she adopted y a niece of her , husband ' s , a child of seven years Reeamier This old was . a , home indeed tie , , a and happy an child unfailing event kind for source both and ; of it interest gave protectress to ; and Madame tender to

    affectionand to the little a loving , whom and affection she , devoted we owe herself memoir during s , which life do ; to honor this both filial indeed to reverence her who

    inspired so much love and to her who gave it : Well , , was it of that comfort _; Madame lo be Reeamier always with secured her , , for just she when soon she had did need ; a new of it . source

    Matthieu de Montmorency having dared to visit Madame de Stael _, vernment in her exile and , thereby received incurred sentence the of disp exile leasure himself of . the "When Imperial the news

    Goreached Madame , de Staelshe was daily expecting Madame Reca-Reeamier mier sent to a courier stay would with warning not her . Dreading her near , not Coppet to to compromise come without , but entering in another vain . thoug friend Madame h , but she

    pass , her for thus a head separated short . She time was from , and exile her by d father so to doin fort her y g leagues broug friends ht ' distance in and stant her from punishment home Paris . , and on

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    299 Madame Recamier ,

    299 MADAME RECAMIER _,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/11/