Benjamin Constant
liberals during the Restoration, gives a somewhat more sympathetic portrait of the redoubtable parliamentary debater in action: ...
Thank you for approving of my book. I am hard at work on the second volume which is more shocking than the first. It’s impossibl ...
accorded to a small and arguably parasitic group when many thousands more had also suffered. In its zeal to roll back the conseq ...
As Kurt Kloocke points out, Constant’s far-sighted analysis of the sources of social change and friction anticipates that of Kar ...
d’Hermenches when Constant died, and subsequently at least some of the documents went into d’Hermenches’s family archives. 41 Af ...
I’m dead, but as God is my witness I don’t know why. It’s a habit of mind I’ve had since my childhood. But I can’t say I’m tempt ...
every means of pleasure from us. They leave us with the past to sustain us, which is sad, and offer the prospect of a future whi ...
My last publication, a copy of which I hope you have received, has already explained to you, I suppose, what are my notions on m ...
between April and June 1829 Constant published twenty-four articles in the Courrier français. In the period 1829–30 he is also k ...
formed, the Left was being mobilized, and all the while the Orleanists were waiting in the wings. A new liberal newspaper financ ...
a gift of 200,000 francs to pay off his gambling debts to the banker Lafitte ‘in the name of Liberty’. Constant accepted the mon ...
extension to my lease of life of two or three years again. Some things are so intriguing that one wants to see—I don’t say how t ...
The reference to the folder concerns a dispute between Beaune and Charlotte: the secretary maintained that Constant had promised ...
EPILOGUE Constant was a haunted man, pursued by the nightmare of death and oblivion. Jean-Jacques Coulmann, who knew him well du ...
his mother, the rivalry between his female relatives to compensate for that loss, his arbitrary removal from that circle in orde ...
not simply freedom from a mistress but freedom in all its aspects, political, religious, the right to privacy, and so on. But st ...
letter still in the Von Marenholtz family archives at Wolfenbüttel, sent from Fort Royal, Martinique in the French West Indies, ...
List of abbreviations used in the notes ABC Annales Benjamin Constant, 1980–, Lausanne: Institut Benjamin Constant (annual journ ...
Stock, 1932. Rudler, Jeunesse Gustave Rudler, La Jeunesse de Benjamin Constant 1767–1794. Le disciple du XVIII e siècle. Utilita ...
Notes INTRODUCTION The international conference—the second on Constant, the first having taken place in October 1967—was held i ...
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