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Germaine Baroness de Staël (Madame de Staël) was the daughter of Swiss banker (and pre-revolutionary French minister of finance) Jacques Necker and is known for her literary salon in Paris.

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, son of a exiled French Huguenot family was born in Lausanne, Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Constant is regarded as one of the most important thinkers of political and economic liberalism and an influential French politician.

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Today he is remembered foremost as a romantic writer, however.

The biographies of Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant are closely intervoven.

Madame de Staël: Biography

• 1766-04-22: Anne Germaine Necker is born as daughter of Jacques Necker, a Swiss banker from Geneva, who went to Paris in 1750 and was appointed general director of finances in 1777 by the French king.
• Enthusiastic about the French Revolution in the beginning, Madame de Staël flees to a fam