Biancamaria fontana biography definition
A Protestant in a Catholic country, born into a distinguished Genevan bourgeois family, she had major literary and political ambitions.
Acter who had strong admirers, critics, and enemies....
Her Own Woman
According to Biancamaria Fontana, professor of the history of political ideas at University of Lausanne, most of the histories of the French Revolution fail the Bechdel test when discussing Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), the daughter of Jacques Necker.
He was one of a series of France’s financial controllers who tried to right the severely listing ship of the state but could not convince the royals, the nobles, or the clergy to pay any taxes.
Not that Fontana ever mentions the Bechdel test, but she does write that Staël, novelist, literary critic, and political theorist, is usually mentioned either for her allegedly scandalous behavior or in connection with the famous men in her life—Necker, Louis de Narbonne, and Benjamin Constant, among others.
What is emphasized is her relationships with these men and how dependent her writings were on theirs.
Fontana will have none of this:
As to her posthumous reputation, historians have often ridiculed her political