Junot, Laure Sainte-Martin-Permon (1784–1838)

French writer. Her considerable wit and intelligence attracted to her salon most of the influential political figures of the Napoleonic era. She is remembered for her Mémoires sur Napoléon, le Consulat, l'Empire et la Restauration 1831–36, which cover the period from the Revolution to the reign of Louis Philippe, and her Histoire des salons de Paris 1837–38.