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Staël refers to Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, a prominent writer and intellectual of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Born Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker in 1766 in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques Necker, a Swiss-born financier and statesman, and Susanne Curchod. In 1786 she married Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, and thereafter used the surname Staël. She and her circle lived in Paris and later at Coppet in Switzerland, where the Staël salon became a center of literary and political discussion.
Staël helped introduce German literature and philosophy to French audiences and became a leading voice in
Her thought contributed to European Romanticism and liberal political theory, influencing contemporaries and later thinkers. Staël