Staël

[ stahl ]

noun

1. Madame de Baronne de Staël-Holstein, 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

Staël

/ stal /

noun

1. StaëlMadame de17661817FFrenchWRITING: writer Madame de . full name Baronne Anne Louise Germaine (née Necker ) de Staël-Holstein . 1766–1817, French writer, whose works, esp De l'Allemagne (1810), anticipated French romanticism

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At any rate it is a famous book, and Madame de Stael is a very celebrated author.

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A good deal of biographical pains has been spent, as has been already more than once hinted, on Madame de Stael.

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In Madame de Stael we encounter a truly redoubtable figure in literature.

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Madame de Stael was singularly fortunate in heredity on both sides of her parentage.

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From this we draw our illustrations by specimen of the literary quality of Madame de Stael.

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