Coppet

And she had an estate at a place called Coppet, outside of Geneva.

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It begins dramatically when they first meet on the road to Coppet, "A Chance Encounter," in September 1794.

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A generation later, Sainte-Beuve praised her as "a great Athenian orator" for freedom, but now emphasized the inward-looking poetic intensity of the Coppet circle, self-entranced by "la raquette magique du discours" (Portraits de Femmes, 1845).

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Despite these alarums and excursions, for twenty years she turned her beautiful château at Coppet, on the banks of Lake Leman, into an intellectual powerhouse and asylum for displaced writers and thinkers, the equivalent of Voltaire's Ferney.

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Thus Germaine ruled over Coppet, like Venus over the damned souls in the Venusberg, like Calypso over shipwrecked travelers, like Circe over her menagerie.

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By the time he was invited to Coppet in July – August 1816, Byron had gone through the mill himself: married, separated, and driven by scandal into exile.

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They first met in London in 1813, and then again at Coppet in 1816.

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It involved chasing each other around and around the dining table at Coppet, with shrieks of excitement "like red Indians."

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De Staël's formidable French champion, the editor of the Cahiers Staëliens Simone Balayé, also has much to say on the subject and the global influence of the "Coppet group" in her wide-ranging essays in Madame de Staël: Écrire, Lutter, Vivre (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1994).

The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009