Benjamin Constant

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BENJAMIN CONSTANT A biography Dennis Wood London and New York ...

First published 1993 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Libra ...

CONTENTS List of plates v Preface vi - A NOTE ON BENJAMIN CONSTANT’S FAMILY Brief chronology ix - INTRODUCTION - AND HIS F ...

PLATES (Between pages 114 and 115.) 1 The High Street, Edinburgh in about 1780, by David Allan (1744– 96) 2 Benjamin Constant ag ...

PREFACE It may be helpful to state from the outset what this book is not. It makes no pretence at being the full and definitive ...

works and correspondence may yet fill (at the time I am writing only one volume of each has so far gone to press), as well as su ...

research through travel grants. At Routledge, Richard Stoneman’s forbearance since 1986 has been worthy indeed of the Constant f ...

BRIEF CHRONOLOGY 1767 25 October: Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque born in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Juste de Constan ...

pietistic circle in Lausanne. 1808 5 June: secretly marries Charlotte. Completes Wallstein while at Coppet. 1811– 14 In Germany ...

A NOTE ON BENJAMIN CONSTANT’S FAMILY In view of the complex family background to Constant’s life and its importance in, for exam ...

(1758–1834), who remained unmarried and became a close friend and lifelong correspondent; her sister Louise-Philippine, known as ...

vis his half-brother Charles and his half-sister Louise. He grew especially fond of Louise d’Estournelles, who herself later bec ...

INTRODUCTION The inglorious collapse of the Communist régimes of Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992, an unexpected and extraor ...

by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual both over an authority that would wish to govern by despotic means and over the ...

subsequently of a rather motley assortment of private tutors. Early stirrings of rebellion by Benjamin against those tutors (one ...

his fiercest twentieth-century critic Henri Guillemin has continually pointed out,^11 although by any reckoning Constant would m ...

The possible reasons for that recurrent dispiritedness in Constant will be the starting point for our consideration of his life ...

1 ‘THE GRIEF THAT DOES NOT SPEAK’: CONSTANT AND HIS FATHER (1767–1783) Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers ...