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10092008.Pdf Slate.com Table of Contents food Eat Your Spherified Vegetables! foreigners Advanced Search Enough About Israel, Already books foreigners The Woman Who Never Stopped Talking Heartland Government chatterbox green room Fun With Bailout Numbers The Big Necessity chatterbox hot document The New Complacency Sarah Palin's Tax Return chatterbox jurisprudence Not Using Wright, McCain-Style Bad Cop corrections map the candidates Corrections Midwestern Front culture gabfest medical examiner The Culture Gabfest, Sore-Loser Edition Womb Raider culturebox moneybox Emily Dickinson's Secret Lover! Subprime Suspects day to day moneybox Should Obama and McCain Go Negative at the Debate? Is Warren Buffett the New J.P. Morgan? dear prudence movies Our Pigskin Anniversary Glossy Torture dvd extras movies Red Dawn Happy Happy Happy election scorecard other magazines Tossup No More Getting Bitter All the Time explainer poem Is the European Credit Crisis Our Fault? "On Love, on Grief" explainer politics Can Paulson Fire Naughty Executives? Barack, Bill, and Me explainer politics What a Boy Wants Track the Presidential Polls on Your iPhone explainer politics Flight of the Penguins A Republican Mob Scene faith-based politics The Anti-Semite's Favorite Jewish Prayer Professor and Pastor family politics Mom, What's a Credit Default Swap? The Winner: "That One" fighting words politics How To Win Afghanistan's Opium War The Really Busy Person's Guide to Political Activism Copyright 2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC 1/98 politics the spectator Beware of Ponytail Guy The Bloomberg Syndrome politics the undercover economist The Power of Vice Bailouts Are Inevitable, Even Desirable press box today's business press Bogus Trend of the Week: Dudes With Cats Party Like It's 1929 press box today's business press This "Town Hall" Debate Is Neither Dow: How Low Can You Go? shopping today's papers Show Me My Money Seven Days' Battle slate v today's papers MSM ISO GOP Love National Bank slate v today's papers C'mon, Move to Canada! Nothing Personal slate v today's papers Interviews 50 Cents: Voters Are Like Snowflakes Drowned World Tour slate v today's papers Dear Prudence: Sorority Sugar Daddy Europe's Turn sports nut today's papers A Prayer for the Tampa Bay Rays Advantage Obama supreme court dispatches today's papers Smoke Rings Bail Is Set swingers twitterbox As Goes Omaha … McCain: Vote Petraeus/Lieberman '08 technology war stories The Daily Beast's Burden Obama Won the Foreign-Policy Questions technology webhead Google Plays Monopoly Measuring the Palin Effect the audio book club The Audio Book Club on The Night of the Gun the big idea Name That Economy Advanced Search Friday, October 19, 2001, at 6:39 PM ET The Big Sort Lessons From the "Redneck Caucus" the chat room books Knock, Knock! The Woman Who Never Stopped Talking the green lantern The secret of Madame de Stael's success. What the Heck Is "Clean Coal"? By Stacy Schiff Monday, October 6, 2008, at 7:18 AM ET the has-been What Won't You Do for Us Lately? Copyright 2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC 2/98 proto-Sartre to this 18th-century de Beauvoir, fathered the fourth. I'll be honest: "First modern woman" does not constitute what I At 45, Germaine was pregnant again, by a man young enough to would call a dream job. Someone had to step up, however, be her son and whom she later secretly married. He was a lover and—assuming royal and Ptolemaic women are off limits—one of a different kind, inarticulate in a manner that may have looks to Enlightenment Europe for volunteers. French residency recalled her father. As Madame de Stael explained to one if not nationality was a plus. A fortune was de rigueur. It helped hardworking hostess, "Speech is not his language." to be an only child; generally one goes further in the absence of pesky male heirs. And what never hurts—arguably even today— It was entirely hers. She woke with her mouth open, discoursed is an adoring, intellectually inclined father. Such were the "as she was being coiffed, manicured, and laced into corsets," blessings showered on Germaine de Stael, and though I might fell silent only when asleep. It was a virtuoso performance, at argue that Mesdames du Chatelet and de Charrière challenge her least at those addresses that thrilled to such things. Her aperçus title —and the subtitle of Francine du Plessix Gray's new were lost, for example, in Geneva, for whose people she had biography—few have done as much with those advantages as little patience: "Their love of equality is but a desire to drag Madame de Stael. Certainly no one caused as much trouble. everybody down; their liberty is insolence, and their morality is boredom." Generally she set a difficult, relentless pace and was The prolific writer and thinker was born Germaine Necker in an exhausting companion; Gray may well have a point in 1766. Neither parent was celebrated for a sense of humor, but diagnosing manic depression. None of which stopped de Stael both distinguished themselves on other counts. Monsieur Necker from wondering why men, in particular, tired of her so quickly. was Louis XVI's immensely powerful director general of Constant provided one answer: "I have never known a woman finances. As financially astute as he was politically obtuse, he who was more continuously exacting. … Everybody's entire did his government few favors; on the other hand, he left his existence, every hour, every minute, for years on end, must be at daughter the greatest fortune in France. Madame Necker her disposition, or else there is an explosion like all presided over Paris' most illustrious salon, no mean feat given thunderstorms and earthquakes put together." her mute husband. As Gray notes, Necker's conversation "consisted, at best, of a profound and disdainful silence." It did not take her long to pick up her pen, thereafter lodged (attested Byron) at all times behind her ear; on the page she— In a manic misreading of Rousseau, the couple force-fed their and her political acuity—captivated Europe. Her first great work precocious daughter "math, geography, science, languages, and addressed women's difficulty reconciling love and work, for theology from the time she was three." By 12 she was "a which the winning formula has yet to be revealed. This was new walking encyclopedia of philosophical knowledge." (Where was terrain, repeatedly trod by de Stael, who recognized in her sex a J.S. Mill when you had the girl for him? Alas, not born yet.) moral superiority and a civilizing presence. She begged them to Permanently affixed to her mother's side, Germaine was spared continue to assert themselves: "It is essential to the happiness of the company of other children. She was allowed to attend society for women to develop their spirit and their rational Madame Necker's salon on the condition she be seen, not heard, powers." The novels, too, are polemics on women's rights. Her for which the rest of her life could be said to constitute a prolix Corinne certainly qualifies as the first independent literary revenge. heroine; as Gray points out, she is not only financially, socially, and romantically independent but celebrated for her own Naturally the walking encyclopedia suffered a nervous accomplishments to boot. The novel would influence, among breakdown early on. Playmates were prescribed, along with a others, Mary Godwin, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, separation from Madame Necker. (I was reminded of that and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who confessed to "intense haunting moment in Strachey's Queen Victoria, when the newly sympathy" for its heroine. crowned 18-year-old asks to be left alone for an hour. At its end she issues her first royal edict, essentially amputating her mother More than anything it was her assault on imperial politics that from her side.) In this case Gray attributes a yearning insecurity put Madame de Stael on the map; she was the bane of to an oddly unaffectionate brand of maternal smothering. It was Napoleon's existence. He was not pleased to read that either balanced or exacerbated by an "extravagant passion" for "[l]iberality is nothing other than morality in government" and her father, the love of Germaine's life. was no happier to be compared on the page to Attila the Hun. For her published offenses he exiled her from Paris so many At 20, Germaine married de Stael, a hapless Swedish nobleman times I lost count. On no occasion does he seem to have made it and sometime ambassador—a man so "sterile and inert" that he through more than a few pages of Madame de Stael's works. actually made her miss her mother. Neatly clinching the More to the point, she was a dangerous woman with influential modernity title in one realm, she never put sex, love, marriage, friends and a dedicated audience. and progeny in one basket. The first child was de Stael's. The next two were those of the raffish Vicomte de Narbonne. De Stael's politics were liberal, also at all times wildly Benjamin Constant, the liberal writer and politician and the inconsistent. She was a contrarian; Gray notes that she tended to Copyright 2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC 3/98 side with the opposition. She wrote against slavery, for Marie Antoinette. When she was not writing she was politicking. She You know the economy is in trouble when economists start knew everyone worth knowing and appears never to have met an bandying around numeric terms previously associated with idea, or an intrigue, that left her cold.
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