Récamir, Madame, Frenchwoman, born at Lyons; became at 15 the wife of a rich banker In Paris thrice her own age; was celebrated for her wit her beauty, and her salon; was a friend of Madame de Staël and Châteaubriand, whom she soothed in his declining years, and a good woman (1777-1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rebellion * Recanati