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Germaine de Staël

1766 - 1817

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (French: [an lwiz ʒɛʁmɛn də stal ɔlstajn]; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël (French: [madam də stal]), was a prominent philosopher, woman of letters, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a respected salonist and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germaine de Staël has received more than 842,333 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Germaine de Staël is the 248th most popular writer (down from 246th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from France (down from 279th in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Writer.

Germaine de Staël was a French-Swiss author who is most famous for her novel Corinne, or Italy, which was published in 1807.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Germaine de Staël ranks 248 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Musil, John Milton, Saadi Shirazi, Halldór Laxness, J. M. G. Le Clézio, and Paula Hitler. After her are Valmiki, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, and François Mauriac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, Germaine de Staël ranks 4. Before her are John Dalton, Thomas Robert Malthus, and Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. After her are Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Nikolay Karamzin, Johanna Schopenhauer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1817, Germaine de Staël ranks 3. Before her are Jane Austen, and Tadeusz Kościuszko. After her are Charles Messier, André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Fyodor Ushakov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Germaine de Staël ranks 298 out of 6,770. Before her are Gabriel Fauré (1845), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Robert II of France (972), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804). After her are Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), François Mauriac (1885), Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), and John I of France (1316).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Germaine de Staël ranks 46. Before her are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Pierre Corneille (1606), Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), and J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940). After her are François Mauriac (1885), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Alphonse Daudet (1840), Paul Valéry (1871), and Colette (1873).

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