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 MADAME DE STAEL AND NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 279 the greatest of her sex. Corinne, which has long been used in schools as a French reading-book, is not excellent, nor even tolerable, as a work of art; but her writings abound in passages of admirable sense expressed in admirable words. Her book upon Germany, with all the suppressed passages marked, was reprinted in Paris as recently as 1867 ; and about the same time was completed the publication of the works of her antagonist, who held her in such well grouixdod terror.