Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël - J. Christopher Herold - Google Books

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J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical,…