Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël Roger W. Hecht Build your dream home

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Matching the exciting adventures previously depicted in the series

and an unflinching candor

giving lectures and researching his novels

Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël Roger W. Hecht Build your dream homeJ. 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