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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

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The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

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-- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, (Apr 22 1766-1817), French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist; She was a respected political propagandist and conversationalist who epitomized the European culture of her time.


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