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lillyli-74 · 6 months

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I have something in my heart for you which will die only when I do.

~Germaine de Staël

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ardent-reflections · 11 months

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I have something in my heart for you which will die only when I do.

Germaine de Stael

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empirearchives · 5 months

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Napoleon’s relationship and Madame de Staël

“It was certainly not a product of the groundless claim that Napoleon disliked ‘intellectual women’, a jibe repeated even by so powerful a mind as that of Pieter Geyl. His close relationship with his step-daughter, Hortense, his singular efforts in the realm of girls’ education, and the power he gave two of his sisters — Elisa, in Tuscany, and Caroline, in Naples — readily belie this. Napoleon viewed Staël in no small part with the eye of Figaro: She was a spoiled product of ancien régime privilege, the daughter of a powerful minister and financier, the wife of an aged aristocrat she played for a fool; she was just a ponce, however clever. To Napoleon, she was patronising the parvenu. As with Figaro, confrontation with such a creature could cloud the mind, but this was the exception to the rule.”

— Michael Broers, Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny

#Michael Broers #Broers #Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny #napoleon #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #first french empire #french empire #madame de staël #de staël #germaine de staël #Napoleon and women

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my-deer-friend · 8 days

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Anyone in here able to recommend a good biography for Germaine de Staël? Especially one that highlights her social and political opinions - she seems to be at the nexus of several interesting circles.

(English, French or German is fine!)

#germaine de staël #18th century history #19th century history

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living-history-lesson · 7 months

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From left to right: Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Germaine de Staël, Madame Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière, Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, Olympe de Gouges

In 2022 opera on the women of the French revolution premiered! It is called GIRONDINES! It's an English language opera that premiered with Wilmington Concert Opera and will be having its West Coast premier with Mission Opera!

Album image for the original concert cast album

According to an February 2023 article by Broadway World: "The Original Wilmington Concert Opera Cast Album is now available! It features Kirsten C. Kunkle as Charlotte Corday, Ashley Becker as Olympe de Gouges, Marisa Robinson as Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier, Alyssa Maria Lehman as Manon Roland, Raffaella Lo Castro as Germaine de Staël, Tracy Sturgis as Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Thuy Nguyen on Violin, Melissa Brun on Cello, and Sarah Van Sciver on Piano."

I have not yet listened but as someone into frev and opera I am very excited. It also looks like the original concert production may be available to watch on YouTube!

Promo image for the October production

So far it looks like these have been small scale productions, but everything starts somewhere! I need to listen to the music but I wish good things to come

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litandlifequotes · 3 days

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Corinne by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

#anne louise germaine de staël #germaine de staël #corinne #book #book quote #quote #words #reading #fiction #classic #literature

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illustratus · 2 years

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Corinne at Cape Misenum by François Gérard

Showing the title character from Corinne, an 1808 novel by Madame de Stael, at Cape Miseno.

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venicepearl · 1 year

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a leading salonnière. She was a voice of moderation in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era up to the French Restoration. She was present at the Estates General of 1789 and at the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1794 and 1810 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time. She discovered sooner than others the tyrannical character and designs of Napoleon. For many years she lived as an exile – firstly during the Reign of Terror and later due to personal persecution by Napoleon.

In exile, she became the centre of the Coppet group with her unrivalled network of contacts across Europe. In 1814 one of her contemporaries observed that "there are three great powers struggling against Napoleon for the soul of Europe: England, Russia, and Madame de Staël". Known as a witty and brilliant conversationalist, and often dressed in daring outfits, she stimulated the political and intellectual life of her times. Her works, whether novels, travel literature or polemics, which emphasised individuality and passion, made a lasting mark on European thought. De Staël spread the notion of Romanticism widely by its repeated use.

#Germaine de Staël #women in history #women in politics #XVIII century #XIX century #people #portrait #paintings #art #arte

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cuddlymashmallow · 2 years

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"I have something in my heart for you which will die only when I do."

- Germaine de Staël, from a letter to O'Donnell.

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poemaseletras · 2 years

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O remorso é a única dor da alma que o tempo e a ponderação não conseguem nunca acalmar.

Germaine de Staël

#pl #citações #Germaine de Staël

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vertov-mango · 2 years

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“As the French writer Germaine de Staël pointed out at the beginning of the 19th century, when you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: ‘the facial expression penetrates, bit by bit, what one experiences.’ The interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer.”

— Timothy Hampton, Reasons to be Cheerful, aeon.co

#germaine de staël #timothy hampton #emotions #quotes #psychology #cheer #cheerful #cheerfulness #joy #anthropology #religion #christianity #protestant #soul #self #psyche #aeon #psychotherapy #psychoanalysis

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les-toupies-h · 1 year

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« La première condition pour écrire, c’est une manière de sentir vive et forte » Germaine de Staël | Œuvres complètes

#Germaine de Staël #citation #citation écrire #écrire #écriture #écrivain

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ardent-reflections · 11 months

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"I have something in my heart for you which will die only when I do."

Germaine de Stael (1766-1817), from a letter to O'Donnell.

#germaine de staël #my love #him <3 #literature #poetry #poem #poems and quotes #spilled thoughts #words #love quotes #quotes #romance quotes #romantic poets #romance poetry #romance poems

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empirearchives · 1 year

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Madame de Staël:

Source: The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5

#madame de staël #Germaine de Staël #quote #napoleonic era #napoleonic #19th century #anti-Napoleon propaganda #first french empire #french empire #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #taine #Hippolyte taine #history #france #1800s #historian #Gutenberg

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ciderbird · 2 months

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“I finally saw this monarch, absolute by law and by custom and yet so moderate by inclination. What first struck me about him was an expression of goodness and dignity such that the two qualities appeared inseparable and seemed to be a single one. I was also touched by the noble simplicity with which he tackled the great interests of Europe, from the first phrases that he addressed to me. […] Alexander gives and withdraws his trust with great reflection. His youth and his exterior advantages alone, at the beginning of his reign, could have made people suspicious of his lack of thought but he is serious as only a man who has known misfortune can be.”

- Madame de Staël on Alexander I, 1812

#I can’t believe I picked up another book about him goddamnit #also describe alexander without mentioning his ‘exterior advantages’ challange #alexander i #alexander i of russia #madame de staël #germaine de staël-holstein #napoleonic wars #quotes

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poligraf · 16 days

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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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