Benjamin Constant

(Outline of an Essay on the Literature of the Eighteenth Century) in Beatrice Camille Fink, op. cit., p. vi. On the historical ...

Henry Brulard, Stendhal’s own Christian name Henri (Henri Beyle) and that of his mother Henriette who died in childbirth when he ...

The best introduction to the sometimes forbidding world of Lacan’s thought is Malcolm Bowie, Lacan, London: Fontana Press (Font ...

Dominique Verrey, op. cit., p. 3, entry 14. See Rudler, Jeunesse, chapitre II, ‘Marianne’, pp. 50–6. Rudler, Jeunesse, pp. 51–2 ...

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953, esp. p. 162. On p. 49 he is described by a contemporary as ‘distinguished by [his] compass of min ...

On Constant’s period in Edinburgh, see the following articles by C.P.Courtney: ‘Autour de Benjamin Constant: lettres inédites d ...

Courtney (1967; 1), p. 100. Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Sir Lesley Stephen, London: Smith, Elder, 1908, vol. VI, p. 1 ...

Memoirs, vol. I, p. 26. Memoirs, vol. I, p. 27. Macknight, f. 156 verso. Thomas Macknight (1762–1836) was, according to Lord Co ...

Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, p. 14. HSSE, p. 147. Adolphe, ed. Paul Delbouille, Chapitre VII, p. 173. This image of physical or in ...

In the ‘Character of H.B.Constant’ quoted above. Charrière, Œuvres, IV, p. 563, letter of 13 September 1794 from Isabelle de Ch ...

Courtney (1985), p. 281, letter from Juste to Samuel de Constant, 16 February 1786: ‘He’s followed courses in physics and chemi ...

Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, p. 10. Ibid., p. 11. Ibid., p. 12. Ibid., p. 12. Constant, Correspondance I (1774–1792), letter 15 da ...

the strongest. My father used to say to me: ‘What you’re doing is both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because you are e ...

those aspects of life and art which are deadly serious. Humour arises when the things we most love or fear are tested to the lim ...

Slatkine Reprints, 1973), vol. I, pp. 339–40, where it is suggested that Constant and Madame de Charrière saw each other at Mada ...

purchase of Hérivaux and his duel with Bertin de Vaux, and on his relationship with Germaine de Staël and her circle. See C.P.C ...

Charrière, Œuvres, II, p. 239, letter of 13 May 1771. Ma Vie, ed. C.P.Courtney, pp. 20–1. Vincent-Louis-Rodolphe de Saussure (1 ...

Jésus-Christ’ (‘Chaillet, servant of Jesus Christ’): ‘On ne dira pas: Tel maître, tel valet’ (‘No one will say: Like master, lik ...

Ibid., p. 31. Ibid., p. 31. See Dennis Wood, ‘Constant in Britain 1780–1787: a provisional chronology’, ABC, no. 7 (1987), p. 1 ...

Charrière, see Dennis Wood, ‘Isabelle de Charrière et Benjamin Constant: à propos d’une découverte récente’, Studies on Voltaire ...