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.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
happiness
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
history
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
fear