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From Switzerland, she organised an escape route for others, which saved at least 20 lives.
Indeed, she was so often depicted with this accessory that, in the eyes of posterity, she has forever been associated with it — just as Napoleon was with his bicorne hat. The main characters have traits of the flippant Benjamin Constant, and Talleyrand is depicted as an old woman, herself as the heroine with the liberalist view of the Italian aristocrat and politician Melzi d'Eril? She denounced with determination the dangers of allowing one man to take power, though she was never to have even the slightest influence over Napoleon, despite her many attempts. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Two other sources of future light were the…. Constrained by censorship, she wrote the emperor a somewhat provocative and perhaps undignified letter. On 4 and 5 May she joined the meetings of the Estates-General in Versailles , where she met with the young Mathieu de Montmorency.
At her first meeting with Napoleon she was initially prepared to support him, as a war hero , she asked who he thought was the greatest woman in history. He wasn't keen on forceful women: Napoleon responded by exiling her for 10 years. With typical productivity, she used the time getting to grips with German literature and becoming a bridge between the French Enlightenment and German Romanticism.
Her influence and contacts were also vital in bringing England and Prussia into the coalition.
After Napoleon's fall, her salon in Paris was where the attempts at constitutional monarchy were framed. Both her health and that of Rocca were in decline, and they travelled to Italy in October Despite continuing ill-health, she continued to run her Paris salon until her death from a cerebral haemorrhage on 14 July , shortly after a conversion in extremis to Roman Catholicism.
It can certainly be argued that, applauding the principles of the French Revolution, she embraced to the full the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity which it proclaimed. France , History , Literature , Printed books , Romance languages. British Library website satisfaction survey Take part in our web survey!
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped. Germaine de Staël, in full Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne (baroness) de Staël-Holstein, byname Madame de Staël, (born April 22, , Paris.
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