Magid's Reviews > Madame de Stäel

An amazing book about an amazing woman, who evidently lived her life at full throttle, as only the super rich can truly afford to do. She defied the rigid conventions of pre-revolutionary France, survived the genocide of revolutionary France, and used her influence and fierce intellect to challenge Napoleon in post-revolutionary France. She suffered injustice, exile, miscarriages, sexism, and some ridiculous hairstyles, and finally gets the exhaustive, meticulous and enlightening biography that she deserves.