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At the moment when she was writing the following letter to Gibbon, the latter was on his way to London and they had both been in Frankfurt at the same time without knowing it. Madame de Staël rejected his objections both as regards her relationship to Narbonne and her intention to settle in Switzerland; here she is trying to explain and justify her feelings.
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De Staël, M. (2000). Madame de Staël and her Friends in Switzerland (1793). In: Selected Correspondence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4283-0_5
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