Selected Correspondence

✍ Scribed by Madame De Staël (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In her letters Mme de Staël provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration.
This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection.
For this book there is no specific level of readership.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Childhood and Adolescence....Pages 1-10
Madame de Staël, Ambassadress of Sweden (1786)....Pages 11-17
The Beginnings of the Revolution (1789-1791)....Pages 19-31
Count de Narbonne (1792—1793)....Pages 34-48
Madame de Staël and her Friends in Switzerland (1793)....Pages 49-54
Count Ribbing, “The Beautiful Regicide” (1793–1795)....Pages 55-76
Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant and the Directory (1795–1799)....Pages 77-104
The Opposition to Bonaparte; the Exile Begins (1800–1803)....Pages 105-147
The Journey to Germany, Weimar and Berlin (1803–1804)....Pages 148-187
The Death of Necker (1804)....Pages 188-200
Corinne and Italy (1805)....Pages 201-222
“The Terrible Year 1806 ” and the Great Days of Coppet....Pages 223-240
The Stay in Vienna and Maurice O’Donnell (1808–1809)....Pages 241-276
The Crisis of “On Germany ” (1810–1812)....Pages 277-300
The Great Journey, Russia, Sweden, England (1812–1814)....Pages 301-339
The Return to France, the Hundred Days, the Restoration (1814–1815)....Pages 340-363
Albertine’s Wedding, the Year with Byron, Death (1815–1817)....Pages 364-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-414

✦ Subjects

Romance Languages; Political Science, general