Word: stael
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...