Madame de Stael

The vintage scenes, the mid-day halt for luncheon eaten in the open air, the afternoon start, the front seat of the carriage heaped with purple grapes, used to fire my youthful imagination and now recalls Madame de Stael's line on perfect happiness:

Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884

Madame de Stael was a model of the modern woman, smart and ambitious but also curious, civic-minded, enthusiastic, and willing to go a far way for the rights of others.

Nina Sankovitch: Turning to the Enlightenment to Get Out of the Tiger Mother Dark Ages Nina Sankovitch 2011

Madame de Stael was a model of the modern woman, smart and ambitious but also curious, civic-minded, enthusiastic, and willing to go a far way for the rights of others.

Nina Sankovitch: Turning to the Enlightenment to Get Out of the Tiger Mother Dark Ages Nina Sankovitch 2011

Even when theses parents got the methods wrong as Francine du Plessix Gray argues was the case of Madame de Stael and her upbringing by her ambitious maman, in her book Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman, the generation that resulted was in large part, right on target.

Nina Sankovitch: Turning to the Enlightenment to Get Out of the Tiger Mother Dark Ages Nina Sankovitch 2011

Even when theses parents got the methods wrong as Francine du Plessix Gray argues was the case of Madame de Stael and her upbringing by her ambitious maman, in her book Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman, the generation that resulted was in large part, right on target.

Nina Sankovitch: Turning to the Enlightenment to Get Out of the Tiger Mother Dark Ages Nina Sankovitch 2011

Vincennes 6. Catherine de Medici purchased this castle after the death of her husband Henri II and forced his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Chenonceau for it; Benjamin Franklin was a guest there during the 1760's; it was the home of the writer Madame de Stael in the early nineteenth century.

Quiz: Do You Know Your French Châteaux? Julianne Douglas 2009

Pauline Bonaparte led no salons like Madame de Stael, nor was she a revolutionary like Charlotte Corday, or a scientist like Emilie de Chatelet.

Archive 2009-03-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

I saw a quote the other day from Madame de Stael that seems to apply well to Obama: "Men do not change, they unmask themselves."

Obama Rakes In $25 Million, Virtually Tying Hillary's Record 2009

Vincennes 6. Catherine de Medici purchased this castle after the death of her husband Henri II and forced his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Chenonceau for it; Benjamin Franklin was a guest there during the 1760's; it was the home of the writer Madame de Stael in the early nineteenth century.

Archive 2009-01-01 Julianne Douglas 2009

Montaigne, Paris; and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side (namely, of Paris).

Representative Men 2006