When General Bonaparte told the French writer, publicist and literary salon hostess Madame de Staël that he did not like women meddling in politics, she replied: "Yes, but in a country where women have their heads cut off…
Portrait of Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), painted in 1812 by Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, when Madame de Staël was visiting Russia and warmly supporting the struggle against Napoleon