Benjamin Constant
To that complex matrix of thought and emotion was to be added another essential ingredient in Adolphe, the idea of the final sep ...
he had led three years earlier: visits to his family in Lausanne, visits to prostitutes in Geneva (his sexual drive was undimini ...
also take dictation and copy out his writings. Again he plunged himself into his work as best he could, beginning on 4 February ...
reached Auxerre on 9 June to find Germaine’s rented château in complete turmoil. The purpose of his visit was to decide with her ...
The whole of Europe, it seemed, would soon be under the yoke of the Corsican tyrant and his family. Constant could not yet know ...
the happiness she could bring him, and more resolved than ever to be free from Madame de Staël. The entries in his Journaux inti ...
8 ‘ITALIAM, ITALIAM’ (1806–1812) Constant was not a natural novelist in the way that he was a natural diarist, historical schola ...
a divorce on condition that he was financially rewarded, and Constant saw Charlotte again in Paris at the end of November. By 1 ...
of marriage to a woman whose reputation might be judged scandalous in the social circles in which they would wish to move gave h ...
Gautier de Tournes (1755–1828), by coincidence a relative of Madame de Staël.^16 The sect, which followed the writings of Madame ...
I cannot live with a person who is perpetually taking the pulse of her own sensibility and who gets cross when I don’t always sh ...
researches on religion. While Germaine de Staël led a life of extreme brilliance in the best circles of Viennese society that wi ...
(1768–1823), the visionary poet Adam Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) and Franz Tieck, the sculptor brother of the prominent poet Ludw ...
himself stayed at Les Herbages, visiting her discreetly from time to time, just as, not so long before, he had visited the broth ...
Constant’s punishment was to be obliged to spend the summer with Germaine; only then, after three months, could he return to his ...
Constant’s marriage had gradually filtered out and was now generally common knowledge, putting both Madame de Staël and himself ...
kept the marriage secret in order to stay on at Coppet and improve his Wallstein with her help and that of her guests. While all ...
What Charlotte may not have known is that either during this stay or later in 1810 or 1811 Constant was working on the most perm ...
lavish ball organized in Paris to celebrate the Emperor’s wedding. When she wrote to tell Constant the news, his response was me ...
were pulped. All traceable copies of the book in circulation were seized and destroyed.^55 Madame de Staël, having saved the pub ...
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