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The salonnière and singer Rebecka Lejeune Dirichlet was the daughter of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy. She was married to the mathematician ‘Dirichlet’.

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Rebecka Lejeune Dirichlet, née Mendelssohn / Drawing by Wilhelm Hensel, 1823, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2801R.