Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
"Madame de Staël" by Marie-Éléonore Godefroid (1813)
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a French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a leading salonnière.
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Born
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker 22 April 1766 Paris, Kingdom of France
Died
14 July 1817 (aged 51) Paris, France
Spouse(s)
Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein ( m. 1786; died 1802) Albert Jean Michel de Rocca ( m. 1816)
adultbasic
France
era
1800+
Main interests
Cosmopolitanism representative government constitutionalism
Notable work
Delphine (1802) Corinne (1807) De l'Allemagne (1813)
School
Romanticism