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septimasexta ago

Awesome research Swordfish!

Regarding your full article and back-history of Madame de Stael's Paris Salon....

OMG! SEPTIMA SEXTA'S BROTHER, JOHN IZARD MIDDLETON, WAS A MEMBER OF Madame de Stael's inner circle called Groupe de Coppett. Septima and John's father was Arthur Middleton, South Carolina's Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

"Archaeologist, Author and Artist. He was the son of Arthur Middleton a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was educated at Cambridge, England the same school as his father. Middleton's water color painting of the "Roman Remains" painted about 1825 sold at auction in 2009 for a new world record price of $100,800.00 for a watercolor painting. His work as an archaeologist on the Grecian Remains in Italy and other locations was the first contribution made by an American to the knowledge of classical antiquity. He was the husband of Eliza Augusta de Palazieux Falconet (from Italy) who died in Europe in 1832 and was buried there." https://www.geni.com/people/John-Izard-Middleton/6000000003040912659 The Middleton's were major slave holders during this period. They ran huge rice plantations and exported to England. It is believed that Sir Thomas Myddelton, Elizabethan merchant and investor in the first English East India Company, was their ancestor. He wrote the first pamphlet on Mercantilism.

Groupe de Coppet (1803-1817)

"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)."

SEE ENTIRE MEMBER LIST https://www.geni.com/projects/Groupe-de-Coppet-1803-1817/15095

ALSO, WELLCOME TRUST IS HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH VACCINES.

lamplight ago

I wonder if Arthur Middleton is related to Kate Middleton, who is married to Prince William.

septimasexta ago

I looked into it and did not find an immediate connection. However, her father's family ancestors were in the wool trade- the big industry in the past, and the main staple originally traded by the East India company. The early Middleton's were prolific in the 1600's and it is possible that Kate's family was part of the English branch. Thomas Myddelton was part Welsh and descended from the original Princes of Wales. An ancestor married into the English Middletons and the surname was adopted.It is spelled both "Middleton" and "Myddelton."