Germaine de Staël - Wikipedia 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 [4]
France: Women in the Revolution - Library of Congress Stael weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, and its publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon Indeed, the novel stands as the birth of modern nationalism, and introduces to French usage the word `nationalitié'
Staël (1766-1817) – Project Vox Staël’s philosophical work spanned social and political theory, aesthetics, moral philosophy, moral psychology, the reception of Kantian thought, and much else besides Her novels featuring strong but ultimately tragic heroines became best-sellers across Europe and in the newly-formed United States
Madame de Staël, French Political Theorist Woman of Letters Madame de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French intellectual, writer, and political theorist She was a staunch supporter of freedom of speech, democracy, women’s rights as well as a political enemy of Napoleon Bonaparte
Staël, Germaine de (1766–1817) - Encyclopedia. com Germaine de Staël did not fit the stereotypical image of femininity in the 18th century Physically unattractive and tastelessly attired, she was known for her brilliant mind and her writings, her unconventional lifestyle, and her opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte
STAËL, ROMANTICISM AND REVOLUTION - Cambridge University Press . . . Straddling the divides of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, emergent nationalism, and European Romanticism, and playing pivotal roles in those move-ments, she was also a friend of Byron, Thomas Jefferson, and Tsar Alexander
Madame de Staël (1766-1817) | Europeana Germaine de Staël returned to France after the fall of Napoleon and was at the pinnacle of her glory during the First Restoration (1814-1815) She died in Paris on 14 July 1817, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison and the beginning of the French Revolution
Germaine de Staël - Exile, Novels, Enlightenment | Britannica Meanwhile Mme de Staël, persecuted by the police, fled from Napoleon’s Europe Having married, in 1811, a young Swiss officer, “John” Rocca, in May 1812 she went to Austria and, after visiting Russia, Finland, and Sweden, arrived, in June 1813, in England
An Extraordinary Eccentric Woman: Madame de Staël Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, more commonly known as Madame de Staël, is a fascinating figure whose intellectual community spanned from socializing with the Founding Fathers as a child to helping introduce the Germanic literary movement to England and France