Madame de Stael
Madame de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, 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. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 April 1766
CountryFrance
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ...
nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.
The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.
Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience ...
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!