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Germaine de Stael - Zulma and other tales
Identifier
001420
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein ( 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters of Swiss origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
She was one of Napoleon's principal opponents.
Celebrated for her conversational eloquence, she participated actively in the political and intellectual life of her times.
Her works both critical and fictional, made their mark on the history of European Romanticism.
A description of the experience
Germaine de Stael from Zulma and other tales
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world