How Long to Read Madame Récamier

How Long Does it Take to Read Madame Récamier?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Madame Récamier by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

First published in 1940, this is a biography of Jeanne-Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier (1777-1849), a French socialite whose salon drew Parisians from the leading literary and political circles of the early 19th century. Known as Juliette, she was the wife of a Parisian banker 30 years her senior and one of the most prominent women of her time. Beautiful, accomplished, and with a love of literature, Juliette was shy and modest by nature. From the earliest days of the French Consulate to almost the end of the July Monarchy, her salon in Paris was one of the chief resorts of literary and political society that followed what was fashionable. The habitués of her house included many former royalists and others, such as Bernadotte (later Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway) and Gen. Jean Moreau, who were opposed to the government of Napoleon. In 1805 Napoleon’s policies caused her husband major financial losses, and in the same year Napoleon ordered her exiled from Paris. She stayed with her good friend Mme de Staël, one of Napoleon I’s principal opponents, in Geneva and then went to Rome (1813) and Naples, where she was on exceedingly good terms with Gen. Joachim Murat and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, who were then intriguing with the Bourbons. Following Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815 she returned to Paris, where despite her reduced circumstances after 1819 she maintained her salon and continued to receive visitors at the L’Abbaye-aux-Bois, a 17th-century convent, in which she took a separate suite and to which she retired in 1819. “To be beloved was the history of Mme Récamier. Beloved by all in her youth, for her astonishing beauty—beloved for her gentleness, her inexhaustible kindness, for the charm of a character which was reflected in her sweet face—beloved by young and old...such will be the renown of this charming woman!”—MADAME DE HAUTEFEUILLE

How long is Madame Récamier?

Madame Récamier by Henry Dwight Sedgwick is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Madame Récamier Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Madame Récamier aloud.

What Reading Level is Madame Récamier?

Madame Récamier is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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