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Madame de Stael
The influence of the salons of Paris on the thought and culture of the eighteenth century would be difficult to overstate. They were both intellectual powerhouses and also assemblies where the latest and most extreme fashion was displayed. 'Young gallants...wearing silk waistcoats embroidered with Chinese pagodas, making love to ladies reclining negligently against the cushions...or accepting small cups of chocolate from the hands of Negro pages', thus Harold Nicolson describes the drawings of the time in his book "The Age of Reason". These meeting places for the vanguard of society were presided over by a succession of brilliantly clever women, the salonieres, and the most brilliant and cle...
Madame de Staël
"Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein; 22 April 1766 ? 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era of which she was a principal opponent. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism."--Wikipedia.
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Madame de Staël
Explore the life of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, the French woman of letters and political theorist known as Madame de Staël in this biography. Born in 1766 to a leading salonnière and French finance minister, de Staël became a voice of moderation during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant made them one of the most celebrated couples of their time. She was an early critic of Napoleon and spent years living in exile, where she became the center of the Coppet group and built an unrivaled network of contacts across Europe. De Staël's works, including novels and travel literature, made a lasting mark on European thought and helped spread the notion of Romanticism widely.
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Selected Correspondence
In her letters Mme de Staël provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection. For this book there is no specific level of readership.
