(1766–1817), French novelist and critic, a precursor of the French romantics, born Anne Louise Germaine Necker. Her best-known critical work, De l'Allemagne (1810), introduced late 18th-century German writers and thinkers to France.
Definition of de Staël, Madame in US English:
de Staël, Madame
proper noundə ˈstäl
(1766–1817), French novelist and critic; a precursor of the French romantics; born Anne Louise Germaine Necker. Her critical work, De l'Allemagne (1810), introduced late-18th-century German writers and thinkers to France.