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Madame de Staël had been interested in Italy for a long time, notably through friendships with Italian artists, diplomats or political refugees and by what she was told by several of her close friends who had travelled there, including Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
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 (French: [madam də stal]), was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles.
Madame de Stael et le groupe de Coppet. The Coppet group (Groupe de Coppet), also known as the Coppet circle, was an informal intellectual and literary gathering centred on Germaine de Staël during the time period between the establishment of the Napoleonic First Empire (1804) and the Bourbon Restoration of 1814–1815.
Madame de Staël as Corinne at Cape Miseno is a painting of Germaine de Staël by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun in the collection of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, in Geneva. The work was completed between 1807 and 1809. The painting was commissioned by de Staël, who requested a painting showing the character Corinne from her novel Corinne, ou l ...
They separated when Madame de Staël started on a European tour, to reach London through Vienna, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Stockholm. Later they married and moved together to Paris after Waterloo and Napoleon's second abdication. On 5 January 1817 Germaine de Staël suffered a seizure which left her paralysed.
In 1958, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël received the gold medal for nonfiction as part of the California Book Awards. [12] The following year, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [13] The following year, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 studying French ...
Albertine Ida Gustavine, Baroness de Staël-Holstein or simply Albertine (8 June 1797– 22 September 1838), was the daughter of Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein and Madame de Staël, the granddaughter of Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, wife to Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), and mother to Albert, a French monarchist politician, and Louise, a novelist and biographer.
On Germany (French: De l'Allemagne), also known in English as Germany, is a book about German culture and in particular German Romanticism, written by the French writer Germaine de Staël. It promotes Romantic literature, introducing that term to readers in France and other parts of Europe.