Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël Roger W. Hecht threatening the rest of the

threatening the rest of the world

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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël Roger W. Hecht threatening the rest of theJ. 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, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's father was Jacques Necker, the finance minister to Louis XVI, and her mother ran an influential literary political salon in Paris. Always precocious, at