madame de staël

noun

Madame de ( Baronne de Staël-Holstein ) 1766–1817, French novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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Staël (French stal)

—n
	Madame de. full name Baronne Anne Louise Germaine (née Necker) de Staël-Holstein. 1766--1817, French writer, whose works, esp De l'Allemagne (1810), anticipated French romanticism

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