 Most of her later friends were Christians, assimilated or intermarried Jews (like Rahel Levin), or secular Deists and materialists.Her association with Germaine de Staël was obviously of the greatest importance, since Mme de Staël was also the patron and literary companion of Dorothea's second husband, Friedrich Schlegel.The daughter of Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister, de Staël witnessed the collapse of the Bourbons and the French Revolution.