Plaque

Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Inscription

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

Site: Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein (1 memorial)

W1, Argyll Street, Dickens and Jones

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Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein

Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness ...

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