Benjamin Constant

region, Baron Capelle. Capelle would have had little to learn from the methods of modern totalitarian régimes: not only was Germ ...

As he travelled north by coach his thoughts were also with his father from whom he had not heard and to whom he wrote one of his ...

conversation. The students follow the courses at the University quite diligently, then they gamble, drink, sing and fight each o ...

didn’t owe anyone, in order to make the children of a peasant girl rich. It is not, my dear Aunt, that I think I am likely to lo ...

to be under his sway. It was of course to prove one of the greatest mistakes in modern history.) Constant’s stay in Brunswick ha ...

9 THE END OF AN EMPIRE (1812–1816) Constant’s life gradually slipped month by month into a calmer routine, interspersed with the ...

no doubt broached with the Tsar. While she was in St Petersburg, Napoleon’s army had taken Smolensk and was about to occupy Mosc ...

Germaine had disembarked in Stockholm, and now entered enthusiastically into her plans for Bernadotte. On 5 October 1812 in one ...

itself twice. There is no firm evidence, however, and naturally Constant would not mention anything so dangerously seditious in ...

move. He left for Hanover to declare his support for Prince Bernadotte. He was followed by Charlotte and her son. His diary entr ...

and Ma Vie, each in their different ways, explore the obstacles, internal and external, which the modern individual encounters w ...

finally succeeded in obtaining an audience with Tsar Alexander I, one of the architects of the new political order which the All ...

heart wish him to be overthrown by cossacks? ...He must sign a humiliating peace treaty and France must demand a representative ...

French people on 4 June 1814. In the hope of being noticed Constant wrote a pamphlet of a general kind on the basic principles o ...

châtelaine of Coppet had been drawn to Juliette in an intense amitié amoureuse, in which Juliette was like a younger sister or p ...

7 September 1814: A day entirely given over to Juliette. She doen’t yet love me but she likes me. There are few women who can re ...

in order to exhaust himself, in the hope, as he put it, that he would no longer be able to bear a woman’s touch, but to little a ...

despot. By the time it was published on 11 March in the Journal de Paris,^47 it was clear that Paris would soon be in the hands ...

remained proud of the work he had done on the ‘Additional Act’. It had been a genuine effort to ensure that the Emperor became a ...

occasional readings of his novel as he had in Paris, worked on the Memoirs concerning the Hundred Days and waited for Charlotte ...