UNCOVER the forgotten story of one of the 19th century's most famous women.
Professor Catriona Seth will give a free talk on Germaine de Staël at The Weston Library, Broad Street at 1pm tomorrow.
When Madame de Staël died in July 1817 she was renowned for taking a political stance, publishing essays and novels which were widely translated and circulated.
She had been at once admired and reviled as a public intellectual and had been exiled by several régimes.
Napoleon was said to recognise just three powers in Europe—England, Russia and Madame de Staël.
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