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    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:...
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    as lady-in-waiting to Empress consort Joséphine de Beauharnais and her friendship for Germaine de Staël, brought her under suspicion. In 1800 Jacques-Louis...
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    Jacques Necker (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1766, they moved to Rue de Cléry and had a daughter, Anne Louise Germaine, later the famed author and salonnière Madame de Staël. Madame Necker encouraged...
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    Germaine de Staël, better known as Madame de Staël. Although de Staël died a year before her birth, Louise was born in her grandmother's Château de Coppet...
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    across Europe in a French translation by Madame de Staël. She was forced to leave Paris as a result. De Staël, disappointed by French rationalism, became...
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    to Victor de Broglie. Having become a close friend of Albertine de Staël-Holstein, daughter of Germaine de Staël who had married Victor de Broglie, he...
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    into frequent contact with noted intellectuals, among them Germaine de Staël and François-René de Chateaubriand, considered the founder of Romanticism in...
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    the Marquis de Beccaria, Turgot, the writer Pierre Beaumarchais, the pamphleteer Olympe de Gouges, the writer and hostess Germaine de Staël and many French...
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  • signalled their party loyalties in the long black waistcoats they wore. Madame de Staël attempted in her salon mixte to bridge the social and political differences...
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  • operation against the conspirators Cadoudal and Pichegru, in which Germaine de Staël was exiled. In November 1805 Récamier's bank had its first setback...
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    Histoire de la Terreur, 1792–1794, d'après des documents authentiques et inédits, Tome III, pp. 188–189 Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine), Madame de (5 July...
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    Pierre Soulages Nicolas de Staël Claude Viallat Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet (Gustave Courbet) Vue de village (Frédéric Bazille)...
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    house on the Rue de la Chaussée d’Antin on 2 April 1791. The meetings organized by Madame de Lameth, Madame de Montmorin and Madame de Staël, and those...
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    salons and her string of prominent lovers. Parisian society compared Germaine de Staël and Mme Raguet to Minerva and Juno and named their garments for Roman...
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     308. Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue by Otto Scott Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) (1818). Considerations on the Principal Events of the French...
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    salons and her string of prominent lovers. Parisian society compared Germaine de Staël and Mme Raguet to Minerva and Juno and named their garments for Roman...
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    including Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Juliet Mitchell, Ann Oakley and Germaine Greer. All acknowledged their profound debt to Beauvoir, including visiting...
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    Rome, where Bolívar met, among others, Pope Pius VII, French writer Germaine de Staël, and Humboldt again. Rome's sites and history excited Bolívar. On...
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    Tallien, Germaine de Staël and the future empress Josephine Beauharnais. Their own salon was popular with artists and intellectuals, and, according to de Coigny...
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  • writings of Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Victor Cousin, Germaine de Staël, and other English and French commentators for their knowledge of...
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  • Paul Bénichou (category Lycée Janson-de-Sailly teachers)
    accommodating of religious notions, as seen in different ways in the work of Germaine de Staël, Benjamin Constant, and Victor Cousin, among others. On the other...
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    French thinkers alike Juliette Récamier, socialite and friend of Germaine de Staël Madame Roland, the political salon that was the resort of the Girondists...
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    Désirée Clary (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    point, she often spent time with Germaine de Staël and Juliette Récamier. In 1817, Desideria's husband placed a Count de Montrichard in her household as...
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    Bazán has suggested that a crucial predecessor to Taine's idea was Germaine de Staël’s work on the relationship between art and society. Nationalist literary...
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    Hannah Arendt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    wealthy philanthropist Baroness Germaine Alice de Rothschild (born Halphen, 1884–1975), wife of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, becoming her assistant...
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  • List of Huguenots (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Jean de Sponde (1557–1595), poet, later converted to Roman Catholicism. Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), writer, daughter of Jacques Necker. Théophile de Viau...
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    Thomas Carlyle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    with "magnanimity". In the autumn of that year, he read De l'Allemagne (1813) by Germaine de Staël, which prompted him to seek a German teacher, with whom...
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    mystery and purport of colour by ideas. "Before Diderot", Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, "I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless...
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  • Masson, Dubuffet, Braque, Elie Lascaux, Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Picasso, Kandinsky, Nicolas de Staël, Ubac, Palazuelo, Tal Coat, Rouvre, Hayter] (ISBN 2868260012)...
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  • man. "Des rues aux noms de femmes …, Département des institutions, Service pour la promotion de l'égalité entre homme et femme, Canton de Genève" (PDF)...
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