\"I had a passionate admiration for Madame de Staël; and this harsh and arbitrary act showed me despotism under its most odious aspect. The man who banished a woman, and such a woman,—who caused her such unhappiness, could only be regarded by me as an unmerciful tyrant; and from that hour I was against him.\"
Cause of Madame Récamier's banishment.
The result was that Madame Récamier was forbidden to reside within one
\"I had a passionate admiration for Madame de Staël; and this harsh and arbitrary act showed me despotism under its most odious aspect. The man who banished a woman, and such a woman,—who caused her such unhappiness, could only be regarded by me as an unmerciful tyrant; and from that hour I was against him.\"
Cause of Madame Récamier's banishment.
The result was that Madame Récamier was forbidden to reside within one
