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JUNOT, LAURE, DUCHESS OF See also:ABRANTES (1783-1834) , wife of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Montpellier. She was the daughter of Mme. Permon, to whom during her widowhood the See also:young See also:Bonaparte made an offer of See also:marriage—such at least is the version presented by the daughter in her celebrated See also:Memoirs. The Permon See also:family, after various vicissitudes, settled at See also:Paris, and Bonaparte certainly frequented their See also:house a See also:good See also:deal after the downfall of the Jacobin party in See also:Thermidor 1794. Mlle. Permon was married to Junot See also:early in the consulate, and at once entered eagerly into all the gaieties of Paris, and became noted for her beauty, her See also:caustic wit, and her extravagance. The first See also:consul nicknamed her petite peste, but treated her and Junot with the utmost generosity, a fact which did not restrain her sarcasms and slanders in her portrayal of him in her Memoirs. During Junot's See also:diplomatic See also:mission to See also:Lisbon, his wife displayed her prodigality so that on his return to Paris in 18o6 he was burdened with debts, which his own intrigues did not lessen. She joined him again at Lisbon after he had entered that See also:city as conqueror at the See also:close of x807; but even the presents and spoils won at Lisbon did not satisfy her demands; she accompanied Junot through See also:part of the See also:Peninsular See also:War. On her return to See also:France she displeased the See also:emperor by her vivacious remarks and by receiving guests whom he disliked. The See also:mental malady of Junot thereafter threatened her with ruin; this perhaps explains why she took some part in the intrigues for bringing back the Bourbons in 1814. She did not See also:side with See also:Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days.

After 1815 she spent most of her See also:

time at See also:Rome amidst See also:artistic society, which she enlivened with her sprightly converse. She also compiled her spirited but somewhat spiteful Memoirs, which were published at Paris in 1831-1834 in 18 volumes. Many See also:editions have since appeared. Of her other books the most noteworthy are Histoires contempornines (2 vols., 1835) ; Scenes de la See also:vie espagnole (2 vols., 1836) ; Histoire See also:des salons de Paris (6 vols., 1837—1838) ; Souvenirs d'une ambassade et d'un sejour en Espagne et en See also:Portugal, de 18o8 a z8zz (2 vols., 1837). (J. HL.

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