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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4053776, member: 2844&quot;]I had never heard the term fainting couch for a chaise longue before, I thought someone needed smelling salts for their couch.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I suppose old couches can get dizzy spells.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We generally call it a récamier, after Juliette Récamier, a famous French beauty who was portrayed on a chaise longue by several painters. The most famous one was Jacques-Louis David, in 1800:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fc8%2FJacques-Louis_David_016.jpg%2F1200px-Jacques-Louis_David_016.jpg&amp;sp=1621244305T59471a8fb406023e068df88e21a28d73c3972a02685551fa43c47015eb2a9ba5" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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