Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland.(history of the chateau)

The Magazine Antiques | March 1, 2001| | Copyright

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 Estates General of European thought." [2] Even today, the visitor to Geneva senses that the city is ...

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