Stael
madame de (baronne de staël-holstein) 1766–1817, french novelist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
noun
madame de. full name baronne anne louise germaine (née necker) de staël-holstein. 1766–1817, french writer, whose works, esp de l’allemagne (1810), antic-p-ted french romanticism
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