biography
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Staël, Madame de
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popular name of Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baroness of Staël-Holstein
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pronunciation:
[stahl]
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| lived:
| (1766–1817)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France, the daughter of the financier, Jacques Necker. Both before and after the French Revolution, her salon became a centre of political discussion. In 1803 she was forced to leave Paris, and visited Weimar, Berlin, and Vienna, returning to France at intervals. She wrote novels, plays, essays, historical and critical works, and political memoirs, becoming known with her Lettres (1788, Letters) on Rousseau, and achieving European fame with her romantic novel, Corinne (1807). Her major work, De L'Allemagne (1810, On Germany), was published in London in 1813. |
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