Germaine de stael bio
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Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)
Her youth
Germaine de Staël was born in Paris in 1766.
Germaine de stael bio
She was the daughter of the rich Protestantbanker, Jacques Necker, whose forbears had had to flee to Germany and then to Geneva because of religious persecution. Her mother, Suzanne Curchod, was thedaughter of apastor of the Reformed Church in the Canton of Vaud.
Her parents were deeply religious and with age this became more accentuated. They would never lower their standards in order to be accepted by French society, which they considered to be very frivolous.
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In fact they stood out from the crowd because of their religion and strict morality.
Madame Necker was a well-known member of high society and an outstanding person. She had been much influenced by the Enlightenment and introduced her daughterGermaine tothemembers of herhighly influential salon, where one spoke of philosophy and politics.
‘She was clothed in virtue, protected by her shield of fai