1813 - 1814, Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein, lived in a house on this site during the last of her ten years of exile.
La Société d'Études Staëliennes
W1, Argyll Street, Dickens and Jones
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
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Merchant in the City of London. Founded City of London School for Girls. In his will, dated 3 June 1881, left £20,000 to the City of London towards a girls' high school, the residue 'to be applied...
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Russian poet. Living at a time of war, revolution and the Soviet regime, she was often out of favour with the powerful. Her first husband was executed by the Soviet secret police. Her son and her c...
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