Madame de Staël, De l'Allemagne [On Germany]

Gerhart Hoffmeister (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

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First circulation or publication 1813

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During Napoleon’s rise to the status of Emperor and his conquest of Germany in 1806, Mme de Staël was banned from Paris and stayed at Coppet, her retreat on Lake Geneva, until she could return to Paris after Napoleon’s defeat in 1814. While in exile she travelled to England and to Germany, where she made the eminent literary critic August Wilhelm Schlegel her constant companion. During the time spent with the classical German poets in Weimar (1803-04; 1807-08), Mme de Staël collected and worked on notes for

De l’Allemagne

[

On Germany

]. The printing of this text was stopped by order of Napoleon as being “un-French”, since it praised Germany instead of France, according to Savary, Chief of Police, writing to Mme de Staël on 3 Oct. 1810. However, the author managed to…

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Citation: Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "De l'Allemagne". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5708, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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