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
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.