Coppet group (Q389418)

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informal intellectual and literary gathering centred on Germaine de Staël during the time period between the establishment of the Napoleonic First Empire (1804) and the Bourbon Restoration of 1814-1815
  • Coppet circle
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Coppet group
informal intellectual and literary gathering centred on Germaine de Staël during the time period between the establishment of the Napoleonic First Empire (1804) and the Bourbon Restoration of 1814-1815
  • Coppet circle

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Stendhal referred to the Coppet guests as "the Estates General of European opinion."
Ellis, David (2011). Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816. Oxford University Press. p. 77. "Passing through Lausanne in the following year, Stendhal was so impressed to learn of the number of distinguished people Madame de Staël had managed to gather together in 1816 that he described Coppet as 'the Estates-General of European opinion' [...]."
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