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About Germaine de Staël
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 during the tumultuous periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, persisting until the time of the French Restoration.
Everything about Germaine de Staël →- Occupation
- writer, salonnière, diarist, literary critic
- Citizenship
- Republic of Geneva, France
- Born
- April 22, 1766, 1766
- Died
- July 14, 1817, 1817