Madame de. full name Baronne Anne Louise Germaine (née Necker) de Staël-Holstein. 1766–1817, French writer, whose works, esp De l'Allemagne (1810), anticipated French romanticism
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Madame de Baronne de Staël-Holstein(born Anne Louise Germaine Necker) 1766-1817; Fr. writer: presided over an influential literary salon