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Also Known As Suzanne Curchod
Born May 1739 • Switzerland
Died May 6, 1794 (aged 55) • near Lausanne • Switzerland
Notable Family Members daughter Germaine de Staël

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portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
French-Swiss author
Sara Murphy
American expatriate
Gerald Murphy
American expatriate
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
Adams, Marian
Marian Adams
American socialite and photographer
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
American writer
Madeleine de Scudéry
French novelist
Madame du Deffand, engraving by Forshel after a portrait by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
French author
Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler
Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton
American writer, critic and hostess
David, Jacques-Louis: Portrait of Madame Récamier
Madame de Récamier
French patroness
Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, portrait by or after Alfred Edward Chalon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington
Irish author
Ninon de Lenclos, portrait by an unknown artist, 17th century; in the Musée de Versailles, France.
Ninon de Lenclos
French courtesan
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor
British politician
Madame d'Agoult, detail of a portrait by Henri Lehmann; in a private collection
Marie de Flavigny, countess d’Agoult
French author
Julie de Lespinasse
French writer
Mme d'Épinay, detail of a pastel by Jean Étienne Liotard, c. 1759; in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Louise-Florence-Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles, dame de la Live d’Épinay
French author
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet
French patroness
Nanteuil, Robert: engraving of Gilles Ménage
Gilles Ménage
French scholar
Julia Domna, marble bust; in the Glyptothek, Munich
Julia Domna
Roman emperor
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense
German patroness