Birgit
Urmson has succeeded brilliantly in depicting the many colorful,
often contradictory facets of Germaine de Staëls
personality. We first meet her in her Paris residence, the
perfect society hostess, daughter of Jacques Necker, the powerful
minister of finance, famous authoress, patroness of the arts,
but also a fervent advocate of controversial changes in society
free speech, womens emancipation, free love unhampered
by wedlock.
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