Madame Palmyre also called Mademoiselle Palmyre (19th century), was a French

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'' couturier''. Madame Palmyre was an established fashion designer during the

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. She enjoyed a successful career, and came to have an influential position within the French fashion industry and mentioned as a member of the elite fashion designers in mid-19th-century Paris in the era of the Second French Republic and Second Empire, alongside other top designers such as Madame Camille, Madame Vignon-Chauvin and Madame Victorine. She was particularly noted for her ball gowns, which was commented upon once by

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. Among her famous clients were

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, María Francisca de Sales Portocarrero, 16th Duchess of Peñaranda and

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. As one of the top seamstresses in Paris, she and Madame Vignon were engaged to deliver the 54 dresses trousseau of the new empress upon the wedding of Emperor

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in 1853. Vignon did the empress' 32 day dresses, and Palmyre the 20 evening dresses. During the 1850s, she was the favorite designer and dressmaker of the empress of France,

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, before she was replaced by

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.Valerie Steele: Women of Fashion: Twentieth-century Designers, Rizzoli International, 1991

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