Germaine de Staël

Born

22 April 1766

Died

14 July 1817

The daughter of Jacques Necker and wife of the Swedish ambassador, Germaine de Staël held a salon at the embassy in the rue du Bac which became the meeting place of the constitutional monarchists between 1789 and 1792. She used its diplomatic protection to shelter proscribed friends after 10 August 1792 and was seized by the crowd while attempting to leave Paris on 2 September. She spent the Terror in exile at Coppet and in England, returned to Paris in 1795 and became an influential figure under the Directory. Her opposition to Bonaparte brought her banishment from Paris in 1803; her book on Germany was seized and pulped in 1810 and appeared in London three years later. Her account of the Revolution was published after her death in 1817.

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