AKA Anne Louise Germaine Necker

Born: 22-Apr-1766
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 14-Jul-1817
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Important French romanticist

Father: Jacques Necker (finance minister, b. 1732, d. 1804)
Mother: Suzanne Curchod
Husband: Baron Erik de Staël-Holstein (m. 1786)
Son: Auguste (b. 1790)
Son: Albert (b. 1792)
Daughter: Albertine (b. 1796, perhaps fathered by Benjamin Constant)
Boyfriend: Benjamin Constant (author/politician, together 1794-1806 with interruptions)

Author of books:
Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.J. Rousseau (1788)
De l'influence des passions sur le bonheur des individus et des nations (1796)
De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (1800)
Delphine (1802, novel)
Corinne (1807, novel)
De l'Allemagne (1810)
Considérations sur la Révolution française (1818)

Wrote plays:
Sophie, ou les sentiments secrets (1786)
Jeanne Grey (1790)

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