Germaine de Staël Quotes
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
Staël, Germaine de. Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution. Vol. 3, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818, p. 403.
Compare John C. Calhoun's Liberty Dearer Than Union.
In 1837 and 1839 there were insurrections in Lower Canada against British rule. The British put down the rebellions and executed a few of the leaders.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël), was a French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a leading salonnière. She was a voice of moderation in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era up to the French Restoration. She was present at the Estates General of 1789 and at the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Her intellectual collaboration with Benjamin Constant between 1794 and 1810 made them one of the most celebrated intellectual couples of their time.
