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Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein


Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, (25 October 1749 in Loddby, Sweden – 9 May 1802 in Poligny, Jura). Erik Magnus was Chamberlain to Her Majesty Queen Sophia Magdalena. In 1783 he was appointed chargé d'affaires to the Court of France, and in 1785 he was named Ambassador to France. On 21 January 1786 he married the daughter of the French Minister of Finance Jacques Necker, mademoiselle Anne Louise Germaine Necker, who was to achieve fame as "Madame de Staël".


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