Germaine de Staël
Also known as Madame de Staël, Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Mme de Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine, Mme de Staël-Holstein, Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
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Germaine de Staël was a Genevan-French author and intellectual who lived from 1766 to 1817 and became an influential voice during a transformative period in European history. She matters because her writings on literature, politics, and society helped shape Romantic-era thinking and challenged conventional ideas about women's intellectual capabilities during her time.
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- “On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.”
- “L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.”
- “The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein ( French: [an lwiz ʒɛʁmɛn də stal ɔlstajn]; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël (/dəˈstɑːl/ də-STAHL; French: [madam də stal]), was a prominent 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.
Her presence at critical events such as the Estates General of 1789 and the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen underscored her engagement in the political discourse of her time. However, Madame de Staël faced exile for extended periods: initially during the Reign of Terror and subsequently due to personal persecution by Napoleon. She claimed to have discerned the tyrannical nature and ambitions of his rule ahead of many others.
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