Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland.(history of the chateau) From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: DEITZ, PAULA | COPYRIGHT 2001 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Napoleon I, then first consul, forced the liberal novelist and essayist Madame de Stael (nee Anne Louise Germaine Necker) into exile from Paris in 1803, she settled just north of Geneva in the Chateau de Coppet on the banks of the lake. Declaring that "Geneva is Europe." [1] Napoleon realized that Madame de Stael continued to gather the world around her at Coppet, making it a literal crossroads for writers across the Continent. Stendhal (1783-1842) later called Coppet "the Est...