The Coppet Group

The Groupe de Coppet is possibly the most influential network of writers, philosophers, politicians, scientists and artists in the early 19th century - centered around Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant. This project aims to trace all the visitors to the Château de Coppet and thus the people that were directly within the group's sphere of influence. An estimated 600 people came to Coppet for a short or longer stay, in the 1803-1817 timeframe (from Mme. de Staël's exile from Paris til her death). Stendhal called this informal group the "states-general of European opinion" (états généraux de l’opinion européenne).

Les visiteurs de Coppet

En construction / Under construction - Mme de Staël's closest circle is indicated with this sign :

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• Ernestine von Arco, madame de Montgelas (1779-1820)
• Claude Ignace de Barante (1745-1814), civil servant, author.
• Prosper de Barante (1782-1866), historian, author, politician.
• Odilon Barrot (1791-1873)
• Louis Clair de Beaupoil, comte de Saint Aulaire (1778-1854)
• Andrew Bell
• Wilhelmine von Biron von Kurland, Herzogin von Sagan (1781-1839)
• Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844)
• Karl Viktor von Bonstetten (1745-1832)
• Ludovico di Breme (1780-1820)
• Victor de Broglie (1785-1870)
• Sir Henry Brougham (1778-1868)
• Friederika Brun (née Münter) (1765-1835)
• George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1778-1824)
• John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane (1762-1834)
• Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838)
• François René de Châteaubriand (1768-1848)
• Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), general, military theorist.
• Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
• Guillaume Anne de Constant Rebecque, seigneur de Villars (1750-1832)
• Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), chemist, inventor.
• Jane Davy (1780-1855), born Kerr (widow Apreece), heiress and socialite.
• Etienne Dumont (1759-1829)
• Mary Elliot
• Sarah Sophia Fane, Lady Jersey (1785-1867), noblewoman.
• Marc Etienne Frossard (1757-1815), general, poet.
• David François Gaudot (1756-1836)
• Jean-Antoine Gauvin, dit Gallois (1761- 1828)
• Charles de Gentil de Langalerie (1751–1835)
• Joseph-Marie de Gérando (1772-1842)
• François Guizot (1787-1874)
• Emma, Lady Hamilton (1763-1815)
• Frédéric César de La Harpe (1754-1838), politician, scholar.
• John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869), politician, diarist.
• Claude Hochet (1772-1857)
• Charles Huchet de La Bédoyère (1786-1815)
• Carolina Friederica von Humboldt, geb. Dacheröden (1766-1829)
• Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
• Dorota Barbara Jabłonowska (1760-1844)
• François de Jaucourt (1757-1852)
• Camille Jordan (1771-1821), politician, author.
• Wiktor Pavlovich Kotschubei (1768-1834)
• Juliane von Krüdener (1764-1824)
• Alexandre de Laborde (1773-1842)
• Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)
• Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu (1749-1818)
• Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)
• Aline Lugo
• Jacob Frédéric Lullin de Châteauvieux (1772-1841)
• Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), politician, historian.
• Louis Manuel, pastor.
• Friedrich von Matthisson (1761-1831), poet.
• Luise von Matthisson (1790-1824), geb. Schoch
• Jakob Heinrich Meister (1744-1826)
• Francesco Melzo d'Eril (1753-1816)
• Dorothea Mendelssohn (1764-1839)
• John Izard Middleton (1785-1849)
• Mathieu de Montmorency (1766-1826)
• Johannes von Müller (1752-1809), scholar, historian, politician.
• Albertine Necker de Saussure (1766-1841)
• Jacques Necker (1732-1804)
• Alexis de Noville
• Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779-1850)
• Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Landsdowne (1780-1863)
• Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755-1824)
• Alfonso Pignatelli de Aragon (1774-1807)
• Gennaro Pignatelli, principe di Belmonte (1777-1829)
• John William Polidori (1795-1821)
• August von Preußen (1779-1843)
• Charles Victor Prévôt d'Arlincourt (1788-1856)
• Juliette Récamier (1777-1849)
• François Dominique de Reynaud de Montlosier (1755-1838), politician.
• Carl Ritter (1779-1859), geographer.
• Albert de Rocca (1788-1818), lieutenant.
• Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), banker, poet.
• Sarah Rogers, sister of Samuel Rogers
• Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818)
• Elzéar de Sabran (1774-1846)
• Aleksander Antoni Sapieha (1773-1812)
• August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)
• Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)
• Jean de Sismondi (1773-1842)
• Skinast
• Pedro de Sousa Holstein, duque de Palmela (1781-1850)
• Spalding sisters
• Madame de Staël (1766-1817)
• Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard (1732-1817)
• Christian Friedrich Tieck (1776-1851)
• Prince Peter Iwanowitsch Tufiakin (1769-1845), nobleman, theatre director.
• (Henry Vassall-Fox, baron Holland (1773-1840))
• Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)
• Charles de Villers (1765-1815), scholar, author.
• George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey (1773-1859), courtier, politician.
• Caspar Voght (1752-1839)
• Zacharias Werner (1768-1823)
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