Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (died 1817)

Germaine de Staël

Swiss/French author (1766–1817)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and…