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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a respected salonist and writer. Throughout her life, she held a moderate stance…
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politics · French novelist and woman of letters (1766–1817) · writer · salonnière · diarist · literary critic · politician · correspondent · philosopher · translator · also Germaine de Staël, Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Anne-Louise-Germaine, Mme de Staël-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Germaine de Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
Born 22 April 1766 · Died 14 July 1817 · Q123041
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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“It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.”
Les Echos Patrimoine: Livres : de Germaine de Staël à Sissi, cinq biographies sur des femmes hors du commun
Les Echos Patrimoine: Germaine de Staël, antidote lumineux à la tentation despotique
Fabula: "Cultiver la différence: Germaine de Staël et Jean-Jacques Rousseau", par Stéphanie Genand (Château de Coppet, Suisse VD)
ETH Zurich: "Germaine de Staël": funding for cooperation with France
ActuaLitté: Le rendez-vous manqué. Germaine de Staël - Napoléon Bonaparte, une guerre d'influence au coeur de l'Empire
lopinion.fr: Germaine de Staël
Le Temps: Germaine de Staël sous un nouveau jour
lopinion.fr: Immortelle Germaine de Staël
ActuaLitté: Germaine de Staël et Benjamin Constant, l'esprit de liberté
Sud Ouest: Germaine de Staël, intelligente et meurtrie
As a woman whose persecution distinguished her and who commanded respect from all of Europe, and gave her a positive portrayal in his unfinished 1836 novel Roslavlev
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Translated and published as Ten Years' Exile
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And published it as part of the collected works
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Died 1817-07-14.
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“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”
“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”
“Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.”
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Staël writes, “If one succeeds in destroying slavery in the South, at least one government in the world will be as perfect as human reason can possibly conceive
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And she used her influence with him to have the size of the Army of Occupation greatly reduced
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Staël published a preface for his essay on the slave trade in which she called for the end of slavery in Europe
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Began writing her "Ten Years' Exile", detailing her travels and encounters
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After de Staël had successfully published her book in France, Napoleon ordered the destruction of all 10,000 copies
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Benjamin Constant was afraid to admit to her that he had married Charlotte von Hardenberg in the meantime
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Jacques Le Ray de Chaumont sent Jefferson a copy of Corinne, and also conveyed to Staël Jefferson’s first letter addressed to her
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Set out for Vienna and visited Maurice O'Donnell
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Born 1766-04-22.
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