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-- Capturing eloquent observations of the Napoleonic period's most politically outspoken woman, this definitive edition of Germaine de Stael's Dix Annees d'Exil recounts her flight across Europe just ahead of Napoleon's army. Translated by an award-winning scholar, Ten Years of Exile is the only unabridged English edition of this strong-minded and passionate woman's personal and political journal.

Madame Germaine de Stael is often regarded as the "mistress to an age," or (like England and Russia) one of the three great European "powers" of the 19th century. She was in some sense both, but she was also an important and influential writer whose works, astonishingly, have not, until this volume, been translated into English since the early 19th century. She absorbed the leading ideas of the Enlightenment on literature, politics, science and the social order; turned many of them to her own uses and then bequeathed them to the 19th century, which adopted much of the Enlightenment through...

In her letters Mme de Stael provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, i.e. the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration.
This edition, as its French original, includes rare contemporary illustrations never published before in this connection.
For this book there is no specific level of readership."