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  • The smell of slowly simmering veal bones and her rich accompaniment of aromatic vegetable puts my feet firmly in the porcelain clad kitchen of Le Recamier, the restaurant where Eric and I honed our craft, on a quiet little cul-de-sac in Paris' Left Bank.

    Bruce Bromberg: A Culinary Road, Best Seen By Bike Bruce Bromberg 2011

  • The smell of slowly simmering veal bones and her rich accompaniment of aromatic vegetable puts my feet firmly in the porcelain clad kitchen of Le Recamier, the restaurant where Eric and I honed our craft, on a quiet little cul-de-sac in Paris' Left Bank.

    Bruce Bromberg: A Culinary Road, Best Seen By Bike Bruce Bromberg 2011

  • The smell of slowly simmering veal bones and her rich accompaniment of aromatic vegetable puts my feet firmly in the porcelain clad kitchen of Le Recamier, the restaurant where Eric and I honed our craft, on a quiet little cul-de-sac in Paris' Left Bank.

    Bruce Bromberg: A Culinary Road, Best Seen By Bike Bruce Bromberg 2011

  • Madame de Recamier and Madame Tallien, two elegant members of a French Revolution rebellion movement called Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses (the incredible and marvelous), showed their support for the French monarchy by wearing flimsy, allegorical Grecian-style gowns that stood in contrast to the formal court dress of the time.

    Le Freak, C Josh Patner 2010

  • 'From Juliette Recamier, who revived the Parisian salon during the Napoleonic epoch, to Emerald Cunard, whose drwaing-room at the Dorchester was a centre of conversation in wartime London, from Karel Capek in Prague to Salka Viertel in Hollywood, the literary salons of the last two centuries have provided a vital forum for the exchange of ideas between eminent men and women of the day.'

    Bookhound finds... 2008

  • 'From Juliette Recamier, who revived the Parisian salon during the Napoleonic epoch, to Emerald Cunard, whose drwaing-room at the Dorchester was a centre of conversation in wartime London, from Karel Capek in Prague to Salka Viertel in Hollywood, the literary salons of the last two centuries have provided a vital forum for the exchange of ideas between eminent men and women of the day.'

    Bookhound finds... 2008

  • Born into a socially prominent Chicago family, Harriet Hubbard Ayers spent a year in Paris after the 1871 fire, thereafter moving to New York to begin business selling a beauty cream called Recamier.

    The Chemistry of Beauty | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • Dupuytren and Recamier entered into a quarrel in the amphitheatre of the School of

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The Michelle in the photograph is a descendant of Madame Recamier (hair and style of dress) and Madame X (the emphasis on the shoulder straps), even though Miche herself is hardly a lady of leisure.

    Mayhill Fowler: Michelle's Miley Cyrus Moment 2008

  • Recamier appear in proportions as fine as those of the most beautiful women of the past?

    Another Study of a Woman 2007

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