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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 salonhostess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germaine de Staël has received more than 775,206 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Germaine de Staël is the 246th most popular writer (up from 255th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from France (up from 300th in 2019) and the 43rd 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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  • 780k

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  • 71.17

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Germaine de Staël ranks 246 out of 5,755. Before her are Doris Lessing, Nelly Sachs, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jacob Grimm, Sallust, and J. K. Rowling. After her are Bram Stoker, Christine de Pizan, Roald Dahl, Walt Whitman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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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, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Nikolay Karamzin, Maine de Biran, Dominique Jean Larrey, Rodolphe Kreutzer, and Charlotte, Princess Royal. Among people deceased in 1817, Germaine de Staël ranks 2. Before her is Jane Austen. After her are Tadeusz Kościuszko, André Masséna, Charles Messier, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Theroigne de Mericourt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Germaine de Staël ranks 279 out of 6,011. Before her are John the Fearless (1371), Jean Gabin (1904), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Henry I of France (1008), and Simone Weil (1909). After her are Pope Urban IV (1185), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), Anne of Brittany (1477), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Claude Lorrain (1600), and Henri Moissan (1852).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Germaine de Staël ranks 43. Before her are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Colette (1873), Pierre Corneille (1606), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and François de La Rochefoucauld (1613). After her are Frédéric Mistral (1830), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise Sagan (1935), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Paul Valéry (1871), and Antonin Artaud (1896).

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