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Visited Paris: Because of her political views and her friendship with his arch enemy Mme. de Stael, Napoleon in 1811 ordered Mme. Recamier to live at some distance from Paris. She first joined her husband's family in Lyon, then traveled in Italy, and again visited Coppet. She returned to Paris in 1815, and during the early years of the Bourbon restoration her husband recouped his fortune. In 1819, when he had suffered another reversal, she retired to the Abbaye-aux-Bois, a convent in Paris, but continued to hold her salon and was the center of a brilliant group. Her influence over politics and literature was considerable. Among her closest friends were Benjamin Constant and Rene de Chateaubriand. She declined marriage with Chateaubriand in 1846. Blind and a victim of cholera she soon followed him to the grave.Years before, when Picasso and his friend from Barcelona, Carlos Casagemas, had visited Paris for the first time, the two painters were rather shocked, but they also experienced a sense of freedom when they saw couples embracing each other passionately in public and watched risque dances in night clubs. Such things would have been unimaginable in conservative Spain.
Ceracchi visited the United States in 1790 and 1792 and became friendly with George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, whose portrait busts he did. Others who sat for him were Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. On his return to Europe, Ceracchi modeled in Milan several busts of Napoleon, who then invited him to Paris. In Paris, disillusioned with Napoleon, he joined in a conspiracy against Napoleon's life and was guillotined on Jan. 30, 1802. CERAM, sa'ram, is the second-largest of the Moluccas, islands in eastern Indonesia. It extends about 210 miles (338 km) east and west and about 45 miles (72 km) north and south, and has a total land area of about 7,190 square miles (18,625 sq km). In Indonesia the island's name is frequently spelled Seram. |
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