Le « drame de Metz » Villers et Madame de Staёl

Charles de Villers’s merit was a long time overshadowed by Mme de Staёls’ glory. This study of their correspondence aims to shed more light on their only, but for both very important, meeting in Metz in 1803 and in particular their psychological circumstances, which was mostly ignored in the previous studies. So the author has good reasons to claim that Villers’s influence on Mme de Staёls’ well-known book De l’Allemagne is deeper as recognized until now.