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FĂ©lix de SĂ©gur, Julie's last surviving son, died on 10 February 1805. Her grief destroyed her health, and by the middle of March she was clearly dying. Benjamin
Constant was devastated by her approaching death, and went so far as to speculate on whether some part of a person might live on after their
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Louise-Julie
Carreau was born on 8 January 1756. Her mother was Marie Careau. Her father, Francois Pioch de PĂ©zenas, did not recognise her until much later. Julie's mother abandoned her when she was very young. Pierre Gueullette de Maucroix, the king's adviser-in-Council of the Indies, rescued her
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a few days before giving birth to twin sons. Her husband was unfaithful and ruined her. They separated and eventually divorced. Julie Talma was charming, intelligent, strong-willed, rational and a firm republican. She held an influential salon before and during the revolution and at the start of
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was published in 1829, long after he wrote it. He said that Julie Talma differed from other women because she had a realistic view of the relations between the sexes, and "understood and admitted that women who have given themselves and men who have gained what they wanted are in a precisely
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209:. After several months the vicar of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette agreed to marry them as long as Talma registered as a bourgeois of Paris rather than an actor. They married on 19 April 1791. François-Michel Talma, a dentist who was the actor's brother, was the witness.
399:(1760–97). As an extremely intelligent woman and a committed republican Julie appreciated Constant's outlook on the world. In the early summer of 1796 they often saw each other and became close friends, although probably they were never physical lovers.
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throughout her life, and when dying refused to receive a priest for her last rites. She died on 5 May 1805. She is reported to have said, "One should be able to start life over again. During the first performance, one doesn't know what one's doing."
159:, and made a small fortune. She bought a town house on the Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin in 1776. In 1781 the architect François-Victor Perrard de Montreuil sold her the house on the Rue Chantereine where Ségur had installed her. Julie Carreau held a
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On 30 April, twelve days after the ceremony, Julie gave birth to twin sons. The next day the infants were baptised Henri-Castor and
Charles-Pollux. Another child was born, named Tell, who died on 31 May 1794. François-Joseph Talma met the actress
416:(9 November 1799) Constant was elected to the Tribunate, which advised the First Consul (Napoleon). With Julie Talma's support, Constant took a bold public stance of opposing dictatorship and abuses of individual freedom. Around the end of 1799
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wrote of their relationship, "With gently sagacity she steered their affair into the calm lagoon of a devoted and outspoken friendship. She became the firmest as well as the most penetrating friend that
Constant ever had."
436:. In mid-November 1800 Julie Talma introduced Anna Lindsay to Constant. They began an affair, but as Constant later told Julie, he loved and desired Anna but did not want her to sacrifice herself for him.
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was smitten by a terrible fever of love I had sparked in him, without the least intention of doing so." Mirabeau died at Julie Talma's house on the Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin on 2 April 1791.
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316:, accompanied by women of the stage. The comic mimic Fusil gave a performance. Amélie-Julie Candeille was singing at the piano when the doors burst open. The meeting was invaded by
105:. She had three sons by three different fathers. She used the gifts from her protectors to make a small fortune in real estate speculation. She married the well-known tragic actor
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Julie
Carreau became the mistress of François-Antoine de Flandre de Brunville, with whom she had a son, Alexis-Pierre-Louis (1777). She was then the mistress of the viscount
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from the streets. He taught her to read and write, taught her polite manners and after two years enrolled her in the Opera's ballet corps. As a dancer she performed in
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After Talma had ruined Julie he separated from her in 1795, leaving her to raise the twins. Julie had to rent her house on the Rue
Chantereine. The lease was taken by
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On 15 July 1804 Napoleon put on an elaborate ceremony with glittering costumes at the Church of the
Invalides in which he personally awarded the first civilian
349:. She kept a small court of admirers, including Benjamin Constant. Her salon on the Rue Matignon was frequented by prominent republicans and ideologues such as
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Recherche d'une iconographie " Incroyable " et " Merveilleuse " : Les Panneaux DĂ©coratifs sous le Directoire",
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of the 18th century. Finally she was the mistress of a M. Saint-LĂ©ger, who gave her a third son, Jules. All of her sons would die during her lifetime.
395:(1767–1830) at the Rue Matignon, and they began a long exchange of letters. Constant and Julie seem to have met in August 1795, perhaps introduced by
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would visit
Josephine there every evening. Three years later on 11 Germinal year VI (31 March 1798) Julie sold the house to Napoleon. Under the
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in this house. Her private room was decorated with an anonymous frieze that represented the Arts, the Muses, Apollo, Venus and Cupid.
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death. Julie Talma maintained the rationalist views of the
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978:Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power
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1001:Gueniffey, Patrice (2015-04-13),
420:met Benjamin Constant and Madame
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1131:Rosset, François (2012-10-01),
872:Berlanstein, Lenard R. (2001),
852:, University of Chicago Press,
397:Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
1217:, Cambridge University Press,
1165:, Cambridge University Press,
1161:, in Helena Rosenblatt (ed.),
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955:(in French), Librairie Droz,
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486:Julie Talma (1756–1815) – BnF
153:Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart
80:Dancer, courtesan, salonnière
1007:, Harvard University Press,
975:Dwyer, Philip (2013-11-26),
878:, Harvard University Press,
314:Jean-Baptiste Boyer-Fonfrède
1268:19th-century French dancers
1263:18th-century French dancers
1211:Wood, Dennis (1987-11-26),
351:Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
306:Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
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298:Charles François Dumouriez
181:In 1787 Julie Carreau met
1191:, Yale University Press,
1111:, Library of Alexandria,
981:, Yale University Press,
914:Boutillon, Aline (2016),
138:Joseph Alexandre de SĂ©gur
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377:Friendship with Constant
335:Joséphine de Beauharnais
101:in the years before the
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1224:978-0-521-31656-9
1214:Constant: Adolphe
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1144:978-3-11-027471-4
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1040:978-94-011-4283-0
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