Sta�l, Germaine De

In full �Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne (baroness) de Sta�l-Holstein�, byname �Madame de Sta�l� French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist, and conversationalist, who epitomized the European culture of her time, bridging the history of ideas from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. She also gained fame by maintaining a salon for leading intellectuals. Her writings include novels, plays, moral and political essays, literary