Germaine Necker blue plaque

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# Argyll Street: A Refuge at Journey's End Standing before this modest address on Argyll Street, you're witnessing the final chapter of Germaine Necker's extraordinary exile—a decade-long banishment from her native France that had taken her across Europe before Napoleon's shadow drove her to London...

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Argyll Street

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1813-1814 Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein Lived in a house on this site during the last of her ten years of exile