Benjamin Constant
he only knew about the impending coup d’état of 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799) the day before.^85 On the day itself, towards even ...
position, and by a massive majority. The Tribunate consisted of 100 members, each receiving a salary, whose function was to exam ...
rather shabbily on occasion in the process, now had a clearly identifiable enemy and the solid conviction of having right on his ...
Bonaparte enhanced his reputation as a military leader. All the while, by his charm and the favours he bestowed on those who sup ...
7 ‘THE INTERMITTENCES OF THE HEART’ (1800–1806) Anna Lindsay (1764–1820), née O’Dwyer, the daughter of an Irish Catholic innkeep ...
which in his impatience he now found tedious. They were seen together at dinners, at the theatre, at balls. At the height of the ...
Adolphe’s complex feelings towards Ellénore. In the novel Adolphe and Ellénore believe that they have much in common: both are s ...
as possible from both him and the equally unreliable Lamoignon. There she began copying out all his letters with the intention o ...
However, Anna did indeed resemble Constant, as he had remarked in an early letter to her, to the extent of stopping at his reque ...
soon bypass representative institutions completely, and culminate in the reestablishment of a dynasty. In such a political clima ...
Condorcet’s with Benjamin Constant, Madame Talma and General Laclos who told us how he had written his novel—which he seems very ...
aging royalist father, Jacques Necker, Dernières vues de politique et de finances (Last Thoughts on Politics and Finance) which ...
learning of Constant’s plans became as violent as ever, and she used all of the very considerable means at her disposal to preve ...
who had been proscribed by the First Consul.^48 One might add that one of the children accompanying them was Albertine, in all p ...
the one man in Europe who might have helped him most in his work on the history of religion, died in Weimar on 18 December 1803, ...
supper with them. Constant’s final remark is very positive: ‘I know of no one in the world who has as much gaiety, subtlety, str ...
would be unendurable. Constant deserves all credit for doing the noble thing: after three weeks on the road back from Germany he ...
independence. I need to remember the advantages of my ties [with Germaine] as well as their disadvantages. But that Anna is a di ...
moral ideas that it could have separated from them, but also mocking its own principles, taking pleasure in sparing nothing from ...
[Charlotte] again, the woman who changed my whole life and whom I loved so passionately for a few days. I am quite curious about ...
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