Rock And A Hard Place?Mme de Stael and the beautiful Mme Recamier once found themselves seated at an elegant dinner on either side of a young dandy. "Here I am," he declared, "between wit and beauty."
"Quite so," Mme de Stael replied, "and without possessing either."
Stael, Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de (1766-1817) French writer, daughter of the French financier and statesman Jacquss Necker [noted for her relationship with Talleyrand (among others), for her
correspondance, and for such works as Ten Years of Exile, Corinne, Or, Italy, Delphine, Reflections on Suicide, and Del'Allemagne]
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