Staël, Madame de

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein was born on April 22, 1766 in Paris and died there on July 14, 1817. As the daughter of the banker Jacques Necker, she married the Swedish ambassador in Paris in 1789 and thus became Baroness de Staël. At first de Staël sympathized with the French Revolution. When the terror breaks out, she helps friends and enemies to flee. In 1803 she was forced to leave France by Napoleon. Her best-known works include Delphine (1802), Corinne ou l'Italie (1807), De l' Allemagne (1813) and Considérations sur la Révolution française (1818).