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Who was Germaine de Stael's family?

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Born in Paris, the daughter of Jacques and Suzanne Necker, she early absorbed the intellectual and political atmosphere of her mother's salon. In 1786 she married Baron Sta‘l-Holstein, a Swedish diplomat.

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