Benjamin Constant
above all by her sense of humour. The chemistry was exactly right between them—and so was the timing. The affection which now qu ...
obstinacy: ‘I had begun going down that path and nothing was going to make me leave it.’ 4 Meanwhile Constant had taken Jenny’s ...
writing. Up to now the only serious pieces he had composed had been Les Chevaliers, written to please Juste, and the hack work h ...
spoke, sometimes laughing like an idiot at something I had done in all sincerity and in despair half an hour before. The collaps ...
not made any plans, but with some vague idea in my mind I borrowed about 30 louis from Monsieur de Charrière.^12 Isabelle de Cha ...
sont signes exprès de bestise’, stating things categorically and sticking stubbornly to one’s opinions are a sure sign of stupid ...
There is in the world, without the world being aware of it, a serious German writer who has observed very wisely apropos of a pi ...
only 15 guineas in his pocket and very few clothes, he was well pleased with the choice, laughing at himself in the mirror but n ...
It is highly unlikely that Benjamin ever had the slightest intention of catching the boat to Holland on Sunday 22 July 1787. In ...
help of the Reverend Bridges but was also obliged to attend lengthy prayer meetings in the rectory during which Bridges in his f ...
had known for many years) at Wadenhoe near Oundle, in Northamptonshire. Bridges was also Rector of Orlingbury, in the vicinity o ...
longer, I would have his death on my conscience. I entered his room. He was playing whist with three other officers from his reg ...
call an unresolved relationship. Events in Holland, in the form of a mutiny in his father’s regiment, were shortly to give him a ...
Bedchamber for his son during the autumn of 1787, an appointment which was confirmed on 8 March 1788 (and indeed was later follo ...
Neuchâtel, where he was treated for a venereal infection by Dr Joseph Deleschaut, visited Isabelle de Charrière at Colombier, an ...
remediable mock-serious disasters of childhood and adolescence from the real and irreparable ones of adult years. And looking ba ...
5 THE BRUNSWICK YEARS (1788–1794) Constant wrote to Isabelle de Charrière from Basle on 20 or 21 February 1788: I only have time ...
The journey did not get better: an axle on his coach broke at Rastatt, south-west of Karlsruhe, and while it was being repaired ...
Constant reached Brunswick (Braunschweig) via Göttingen on 2 March 1788. He found himself in a walled and moated north-German ci ...
way of consolation. In fact the strongest evidence we have about this period of his life, apart from Cécile, is his corresponden ...
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