Germaine de Staël

Several Finlanders had his ear, the veteran conspirator Sprengtporten, of whom we have already heard in Catherine's time, most of all, and they were able to assure him that the actions of Gustavus had finally alienated the Finlanders, and that if the people were guaranteed their political and religious rights, as had been promised by Catherine, they would submit.

We know, too, from many sources that at this time and for some years later Alexander was personally favourable to liberal institutions, and there is on record a conversation with Madame de Staël in which he discussed the possibility of granting constitutional government even to Russia.

Till the middle of October 1808 Alexander was fully engaged with Napoleon at Erfurt, but on his return to St. Petersburg he determined to take Finland in hand and come to a settlement.

General Buxhoeveden, the Russian commander, had already been directed to arrange for the attendance of a body of Finnish representatives at St. Petersburg to consult as to the future government of the country, but the Finns were not slow to point out that an irregularly chosen deputation of nobles, clergy, burghers, and peasants meeting in the Russian capital with no properly defined powers, and while Russian troops were still at war with Finnish peasants, was far from corresponding to the Diet, Riksdag, at Åbo, which had been promised in the proclamation of February 18, when they had been invited to send deputies, chosen in the usual manner, to deliberate and adopt such measures as the welfare of the country shall require.

M. Orden's third grievance is that while the Russian version speaks of subjects, the Swedish version speaks of inhabitants.

Is M. Orden aware that in the draft of the speech with which the Emperor was to close the day's proceedings, he had with his own hand struck out the word sujet and replaced it with habitant? And that in his final manifesto issued to the Diet in the following week, he used the two words indifferently, habitant occurring twice and sujet once.

Like the careful stylist he was, the pupil of Laharpe and the friend of Madame de Staël liked to vary his phraseology when he could do so without in any way altering the sense.

Next, and this has made a mighty noise in the Russian press, these conspirators against the sacred principle of autocracy make the Tsar speak in Swedish of the constitution of Finland, whereas the Russian word konstitutsium is in the plural.

Several Finlanders had his ear, the veteran conspirator Sprengtporten, of whom we have already heard in Catherine's time, most of all, and they were able to assure him that the actions of Gustavus had finally alienated the Finlanders, and that if the people were guaranteed their political and religious rights, as had been promised by Catherine, they would submit.

We know, too, from many sources that at this time and for some years later, Alexander was personally favourable to liberal institutions, and there is on record a conversation with Madame de Staël in which he discussed the possibility of granting constitutional government even to Russia.

Till the middle of October 1808 Alexander was fully engaged with Napoleon at Erfurt; but on his return to St Petersburg he determined to take Finland in hand and come to a settlement.

General Buxhoeveden, the Russian commander, had already been directed to arrange for the attendance of a body of Finnish representatives at St Petersburg to consult as to the future government of the country.

M. Ordon's third grievance is that while the Russian version speaks of subjects, the Swedish version speaks of inhabitants.

Is M. Ordon aware that in the draft of the speech with which the Emperor was to close the day's proceedings, he had with his own hand struck out the word sujet and replaced it with habitant? And that in his final manifesto issued to the Diet in the following week, he used the two words indifferently, habitant occurring twice and sujet once.

Like the careful stylist he was, the pupil of Laharpe and the friend of Madame de Staël liked to vary his phraseology when he could do so without in any way altering the sense.

Next, and this has made a mighty noise in the Russian press, these conspirators against the sacred principle of autocracy make the Tsar speak in Swedish of the constitution of Finland, whereas the Russian word konstitutsium is in the plural.

The Duke de Berry, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married to a princess of Sicily.

Madame de Stael had died a year previously.

The bodyguard hissed Mademoiselle Maz.

The grand newspapers were all very small.

And Suzanne went on to marry the wealthy French financier Jacques Necker.

Their daughter would become the celebrated writer Madame de Stael.

Now we come to the Grand Tour.

Paris, Switzerland, Florence, and finally Rome.

This daughter was Madame Germaine de Staël.

The Madame was a close friend of Pierre Samuel, and she operated a famous salon cat house.

Madame de Staël was nothing less than an intimate friend of Saint-Simon.

She shared his occult revolutionary ideas.

Henri de Saint-Simon was a student and friend of Jacques Régnier-Bazin, who was associated with the inner circle of several occult-based revolutionary groups during Pierre DuPont's time in France.

Progress would be brought about by a series of revolutions.

Study from Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington to understand how the occult fraternities have created all the revolutions since the French Revolution.

Saint Simon, an Illuminatus, wanted to have a child with Madame de Staël, which would become the Antichrist.

Several Finlanders had his ear, the veteran conspirator Sprengtporten, of whom we have already heard in Catherine's time, most of all, and they were able to assure him that the actions of Gustavus had finally alienated the Finlanders, and that if the people were guaranteed their political and religious rights, as had been promised by Catherine, they would submit.

We know, too, from many sources that at this time and for some years later Alexander was personally favourable to liberal institutions, and there is on record a conversation with Madame de Staël in which he discussed the possibility of granting constitutional government even to Russia.

Till the middle of October 1808 Alexander was fully engaged with Napoleon at Erfurt, but on his return to St. Petersburg he determined to take Finland in hand and come to a settlement.

General Buxhoeveden, the Russian commander, had already been directed to arrange for the attendance of a body of Finnish representatives at St. Petersburg to consult as to the future government of the country, but the Finns were not slow to point out that an irregularly chosen deputation of nobles, clergy, burghers, and peasants meeting in the Russian capital with no properly defined powers, and while Russian troops were still at war with Finnish peasants, was far from corresponding to the Diet, Riksdag, at Orboa, which had been promised in the proclamation of February 18 when they had been invited to send deputies chosen in the usual manner to deliberate and adopt such measures as the welfare of the country shall require.

M. Orden's third grievance is that while the Russian version speaks of subjects, the Swedish version speaks of inhabitants.

Is M. Orden aware that in the draft of the speech with which the Emperor was to close the day's proceedings, he had with his own hand struck out the word sujet and replaced it with habitant? And that in his final manifesto issued to the Diet in the following week, he used the two words indifferently, habitant occurring twice and sujet once.

Like the careful stylist he was, the pupil of Laharpe and the friend of Madame de Staël liked to vary his phraseology when he could do so without in any way altering the sense.

Next, and this has made a mighty noise in the Russian press, these conspirators against the sacred principle of autocracy make the Tsar speak in Swedish of the constitution of Finland, whereas the Russian word konstitutsiom is in the plural.

Several Finlanders had his ear, the veteran conspirator Sprengtporten, of whom we have already heard in Catherine's time, most of all, and they were able to assure him that the actions of Gustavus had finally alienated the Finlanders, and that if the people were guaranteed their political and religious rights, as had been promised by Catherine, they would submit.

We know, too, from many sources that at this time and for some years later Alexander was personally favourable to liberal institutions, and there is on record a conversation with Madame de Staël in which he discussed the possibility of granting constitutional government even to Russia.

Till the middle of October 1808 Alexander was fully engaged with Napoleon at Erfurt, but on his return to St. Petersburg he determined to take Finland in hand and come to a settlement.

General Buxhoevden, the Russian commander, had already been directed to arrange for the attendance of a body of Finnish representatives at St. Petersburg to consult as to the future government of the country, but the Finns were not slow to point out that an irregularly chosen deputation of nobles, clergy, burghers, and peasants meeting in the Russian capital with no properly defined powers, and while Russian troops were still at war with Finnish peasants, was far from corresponding to the Diet, Riksdag, at Orbo, which had been promised in the proclamation of February 18 when they had been invited to send deputies chosen in the usual manner to deliberate and adopt such measures as the welfare of the country shall require.

M. Ordon's third grievance is that while the Russian version speaks of subjects, the Swedish version speaks of inhabitants.

Is M. Ordon aware that in the draft of the speech with which the Emperor was to close the day's proceedings, he had with his own hand struck out the word sujet and replaced it with habitant? And that in his final manifesto issued to the Diet in the following week, he used the two words indifferently, habitant occurring twice and sujet once.

Like the careful stylist he was, the pupil of Laharpe and the friend of Madame de Staël liked to vary his phraseology when he could do so without in any way altering the sense.

Next, and this has made a mighty noise in the Russian press, these conspirators against the sacred principle of autocracy make the Tsar speak in Swedish of the constitution of Finland, whereas the Russian word konstitutsium is in the plural.

Several Finlanders had his ear, the veteran conspirator Sprengtporten, of whom we have already heard in Catherine's time, most of all, and they were able to assure him that the actions of Gustavus had finally alienated the Finlanders, and that if the people were guaranteed their political and religious rights, as had been promised by Catherine, they would submit.

We know, too, from many sources that at this time and for some years later Alexander was personally favourable to liberal institutions, and there is on record a conversation with Madame de Staël in which he discussed the possibility of granting constitutional government even to Russia.

Till the middle of October 1808 Alexander was fully engaged with Napoleon at Erfurt, but on his return to St. Petersburg he determined to take Finland in hand and come to a settlement.

General Buxhoeveden, the Russian commander, had already been directed to arrange for the attendance of a body of Finnish representatives at St. Petersburg to consult as to the future government of the country.

M. Ordon's third grievance is that while the Russian version speaks of subjects, the Swedish version speaks of inhabitants.

Is M. Ordon aware that in the draft of the speech with which the Emperor was to close the day's proceedings, he had with his own hand struck out the word sujet and replaced it with habitant? And that in his final manifesto issued to the Diet in the following week, he used the two words indifferently, habitant occurring twice and sujet once.

Like the careful stylist he was, the pupil of Laharpe and the friend of Madame de Staël liked to vary his phraseology when he could do so without in any way altering the sense.

Next, and this has made a mighty noise in the Russian press, these conspirators against the sacred principle of autocracy make the Tsar speak in Swedish of the constitution of Finland, whereas the Russian word konstitutsium is in the plural.

I'm E.G. Marshall.

"Love," said a lady named Madame de Staël, "is the whole history of a woman's life, but it's only an episode in the life of a man." Of course, she said it almost 200 years ago, and women are supposed to have changed since then.

But as another French philosopher said, "The more things change, the more they remain the same."

We've got the evidence, Mrs. Davis.