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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2014
Print publication year:
2013
First published in:
1889
Online ISBN:
9781139583213
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583213
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Book description

An accomplished biographer of figures ranging from Talleyrand to Cardinal Newman, Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843–1917) originally published this three-volume study in German. Reissued here is the English translation of 1889 by J. E. Gordon Cumming. Madame de Staël (1766–1817), an intellectual in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, was ranked by Auguste Comte as among the 'great men' of the era. A novelist, salonnière, literary and social critic, and follower of Rousseau, she became keenly involved in the opposition to Louis XVI. Volume 1 of Blennerhassett's authoritative study addresses Madame de Staël's life up to the Revolution, examining her ancestry, family and marriage to the Swedish ambassador to France. The volume also covers her views on marriage, slavery, the Rights of Man and the contemporary political turmoil.

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