Madame de Stael Writer

• Gender: Female
• Citizenship: Switzerland
• Born: Apr 22, 1766
• Died: Jul 14, 1817

Anne Louise Germaine de StaÄl-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de StaÄl, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era. She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents. Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.