Word: stael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Charlotta von Hardenberg and Madame de Staël had handsome figures, but the only other thing they had in common was Benjamin Constant. Charlotta was sweet and submissive, Madame de Stael brilliant but tyrannical. Constant couldn't make up his mind. Shuttling back and forth between them, the famed French intellectual debated for 15 years over which one he should take and which he should leave. Cécile is his demonstration of how variable a Constant...
...their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable-among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael-made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and orphans under the care of a gentle old man they all called "Father." His real name: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...