Benjamin Constant
10 ADOLPHE (1816–1819) Constant and his wife reached Dover from Ostend on 25 January 1816. By 1 February he had found a suitable ...
The London literary hostess, Miss Mary Berry (1763–1852), tells a similar story in her journal entry for 14 February 1816: In th ...
the novel occupies both invites the reader to share in the task of passing judgement on his treatment of Ellénore and precludes ...
Constant was fortunate enough to find a good English translator for Adolphe, the Edinburgh-educated Alexander Walker, whose tran ...
voluminous manuscript ‘to God’s safekeeping’ (‘à la garde de Dieu’), as he put it in his diary, that is, to the care of the Reve ...
you have suffered, and my ardent desire to see you reconquer what ought to be yours by right. I said to myself: with such talent ...
1816 to some acclaim.^22 The Second Restoration of Louis XVIII after Waterloo was a very different affair from the First, and Co ...
taken ill while climbing a staircase at a ball held at Count Decazes’s residence on 21 February 1817, and was left partially par ...
pamphlets to defend his position. Although he was defeated, he now at last had friends and allies, and a precise cause to strugg ...
homeland, I felt inclined this morning to tease you about your notion.... Will you tell me why the man who writes with a kind of ...
documentary evidence that the Constant family had fled France in the sixteenth century to avoid religious persecution for their ...
11 APOTHEOSIS (1819–1830) Electoral success meant fame for Constant, of that he could be sure: he was as aware of his strengths ...
speaking and method of work at this time.^2 Baron de Loève-Veimars (1801–54) gives a lively picture of the parliamentarian in ac ...
Unfortunately the Deputy for the Sarthe now had little time left to devote to writing of anything but an ephemeral kind. This is ...
simultaneous polarization to Left and Right. All spring and summer of 1820 Constant resisted attempts to muzzle the press and th ...
which accompanied the French translation of the Italian social theorist Gaetano Filangieri’s Science of Legislation.^14 It was a ...
face further wearying confrontations with Villèle’s government and its tame judiciary, who were now intent on breaking Constant ...
it traces the gradual development of religious feeling through history and examines the various outward forms which that belief ...
At the moment this is our position: you have an annual income of 15,000 francs; the income from my three houses is entirely take ...
love for you and for life will be reborn. My reputation will be strengthened, I shall no longer have a serpent gnawing away at m ...
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