Word: stael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mannish bluestocking Madame de Stael, trying to fascinate Napoleon (she had offered to be his mistress): "General, what woman do you like the best?" Napoleon: "The one I have...
...with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then took over the unequal struggle with the potent Pontine Marshes, and finally...
...made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...
...giving names to things, he spent his last year in a house he called "The Hermitage," whose dining room was to him "The Shop." A crusty personage, he might invite you to spend the day, not bother to give you a meal until 10 p.m. When Mme de Stael visited London she gushed: "Tell Bentham I will see nobody until I have seen him." Grunted Jeremy Bentham: "Sorry for it, for then she will never see anybody...
Many years of Mme. de Stael's life were spent in various European countries where her sparkling salons were centers of revolt against the oppression of French formalism in the arts. She was not too romantic, however, to forget her financial interests, and a large part of her correspondence with Americans deals with her investments in land in northern New York. She also looked upon America as the living example of her theories on the equality of man and life more or less in the natural state. Her correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris shows that she was many...