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Samuel Johnson: Vile rubbish. Women in the eighteenth century had all the power. Madame de Stael practically made the French revolution...
...complexion of the marriage changed after Bonaparte returned a national hero, besieged by well-wishers and idolized by women ("Genius has no sex!" cried Madame de Stael, trying to rush past a startled footman to surprise Bonaparte in his bath). Threatened with divorce, Josephine meekly settled down to the role of dutiful wife...
Sonja Henie's own favorite works these days are the flamboyant but powerful abstractions of Russian-born Nicolas de Stael. She owns seven of them-quite a change from Messrs. Gainsborough and Renoir...
Historian Blanch (The Wilder Shores of Love) finds her subject perhaps too fascinating for an orderly, steady-pulsed narrative, and now and then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
...sending off some fairly polished and legalistic notes. Their phraseology led foreign diplomats to wonder who was writing his stuff. The answer seemed to be that Lu mumba is now surrounded by a growing coterie of Red-lining advisers. Besides the Congo's latter-day Madame de Stael. handsome Leftist Andree Blouin, who has volunteered her way into the most intimate Congo affairs (TIME, Aug. 15). Lumumba relies heavily on a Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, is a radio and press "expert" who, in between polishing...