Benjamin Constant
ends up by telling me how we can get back together again. I have replied that when I saw at the beginning of the letter that she ...
It would take the equivalent of an earthquake in Constant’s life for a relationship like his friendship with Isabelle to alter d ...
6 GERMAINE DE STAEL (1794–1800) Constant was kicking his heels in Lausanne, attending to his father’s financial affairs, being l ...
Isabelle had lately recommended that Constant go and see ‘the author of Zulma’, that is the novelist and essayist Madame de Staë ...
and behaving like a mother (a role which of course befitted her years), and a possessive mother at that. Isabelle’s tragedy was ...
His looks were the obstacle: he was tall and awkward, with reddish hair, spectacles with green lenses, small cold eyes and a blo ...
busy doing good to others, showing so much generosity, such considerate and sustained politeness at social gatherings, and so mu ...
her arm and by the time a doctor arrived he was already recovering.^18 The attempted suicide by poisoning, whether genuine or bo ...
had in fact by chance caught the aftermath of the insurrection of 1 Prairial (20 May 1795) against the Thermidorians when they h ...
despite its shortcomings, at the cost of their lives if necessary.^25 Constant’s greatest fear was a return of the ancien régime ...
night of 7–8 October in prison with François de Pange, both of them accused of having spoken in pro-royalist terms.^30 In Consta ...
Ludwig Ferdinand and Therese Huber who were living at Bôle near Neuchâtel, and sent a note on 26 January 1796 to Isabelle de Cha ...
remained the same.... I am linked to you by all manner of memories, regrets, and I might add, in spite of you, by many hopes. Fa ...
previous August, possibly through Louvet. A highly intelligent woman and staunchly republican, Julie greatly admired Constant’s ...
election at some future date. His efforts on Germaine’s behalf had meanwhile borne fruit, and in December Constant was able to g ...
home of the German Prince Frederick III of Salm-Kyrburg who had been guillotined during the Terror), was dedicated to opposing t ...
to the ideals of freedom and democracy, but being flexible in the means to achieving them. He detested royalism, but he also fea ...
For some time now Constant had felt that his relationship with Germaine de Staël was becoming a burden to him. Bored and in low ...
make speeches and preside in Luzarches at the extraordinary fêtes of which the republican calendar was full, such as the Fête of ...
he hoped that Sieyès had the theoretical nous to be able to ensure the country’s future as a republic by formulating one of the ...
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