Benjamin Constant
diaries,^20 but ultimately to his claim to ‘be a member of the Christian church’. 21 Forty-five years of work began in 1785, a s ...
And on 23 August 1793: ‘Lausanne...always fills me with profound melancholy, and has the effect of making me see everything as b ...
But the obvious reason is not always necessarily the real reason for a person’s feelings and actions, and Constant’s reasons wer ...
kind enough actually to propose that I should write—I would have taken more care to tackle the problem you set. But because of w ...
Benjamin responded by believing—or at least claiming to believe—that his uncle was indifferent to him and asking for his affecti ...
feud with his uncle (this letter was written on 19 March 1786, the rift dated from early May 1786) relations were somewhat strai ...
Constant he did not even like Mrs Trevor. The pistols were loaded and ready when the Englishman threatened to explain to their s ...
uncle has mocked other people and thwarted their wishes the whole time, Benjamin has been in a state of despair, and I’ve been b ...
‘virtually insane as a result of repeated attacks of hysteria’.^40 The whole episode of Constant and Mrs Trevor’s unconsummated ...
Constant de Rebecque. If I had to bring together the sort of person I really like with the kind for whom I have only aversion an ...
Wilde could have been such a man. Knecht may have been another, though once again there is no actual proof of this. What we do k ...
the repetitiveness of his picaresque existence and wanting to wake up to a different self. Joueur et moqueur, a gambler and a wi ...
aristocracy which was epitomized in the personality of her father, a thoroughly respectable man but dour and stern. In later yea ...
It is likely that her long and, for some of the time, clandestine epistolary flirtation with one of Europe’s most celebrated wom ...
hesitation on Isabelle’s part, the wedding eventually took place at the village church of Zuylen on 17 February 1771. ‘Joyless i ...
man than her, not particularly intelligent but good-looking, had inspired a great passion in her. I never got to learn all the d ...
May to September 1784. We only have her husband’s half of the correspondence, with its many references to Isabelle’s indispositi ...
expense of others?’^71 Indeed one feature above all others dominates Isabelle de Charrière’s writings: moral seriousness. Her no ...
negotiations with the Paris publisher Prault, to whom she had been introduced by Jean- Baptiste Suard, when her friendship with ...
4 ESCAPE (1787–1788) The chemists of old called those airy spirits or gases which they had not yet discovered the art of collect ...
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