The story of these amorous duets who have marked the letters with their extraordinary life, of which we can find an echo in their work.
The romance began as in a novel by Vivant Denon. Benjamin Constant was not yet 27 when he met Germaine de Staël in September 1794 near Lausanne. He is not yet the great thinker of freedom, just a Swiss from a good family, that is to say little at the time, while the young woman, a year older than him, is already a star of Europe. She is the daughter of Louis XVI's most famous minister, Jacques Necker, married to Baron de Staël, Swedish ambassador to France.
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This husband does not count; He's a sort of big penniless simpleton who married Germaine for his immense fortune. Everyone thinks they are satisfied with this arranged marriage. Madame de Staël is extremely wealthy but she is only a bourgeois reformed confessional. By marrying a Protestant baron, she washed away her common life without changing her religion. But husband and wife don't love each other
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