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38. Ibid.


39. Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 251.


40. Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 254.


41. Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 273–4.


42. Kurt Kloocke, Benjamin Constant: une biographie intellectuelle, Geneva-Paris:
    Droz, 1984, pp. 29 ff.


43. Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, MS Co 2848.


44. Recueil de généalogies vaudoises, publié par la Société vaudoise de généalogie,
    Lausanne: Bridel, 1923, vol. I, p. 222. Louise-Philippine de Rebecque, daughter of
    Marianne and Juste and half-sister to Benjamin, was born on 3 June 1792.


45. On this episode and, more generally, on the growing estrangement between Constant
    and Minna, see Kurt Kloocke, ‘Benjamin Constant et Min[n]a von Cramm:
    documents inédits’, ABC, no. 2 (1982), pp. 88–109. The article contains the full text
    of the Narré or account of the breakdown of his marriage which Constant was to
    write in March 1793.


46. Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 416–17.


47. See Kurt Kloocke, art. cit., pp. 82 and 106. Dmitri Vladimirovich Golitsyn was a
    cavalry general and later Governor of Moscow. As a young man he was sent with his
    elder brother Boris to Strasbourg Military Academy where he stayed for six years.
    He returned to Russia at the start of the French Revolution, but was later involved in
    the storming of Prague in 1794. I am grateful to my colleague Professor R.E.F.Smith
    for his help in identifying ‘le Prince Galizin’ from Russian sources. The young man
    appears in Cécile in the guise of ‘le Prince Narischkin’.


48. Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 416, letter from Constant to Isabelle dated 17 September
    1792: ‘My father has just asked me to give up more than a third of my fortune to
    Marianne.’


49. Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 480.


50. Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 435, letter from Constant to Isabelle de Charrière of 5
    November 1792.


51. Kurt Kloocke, art. cit., p. 91.


52. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. Nachlass Langer, MS BA II,
    111, Briefe an Langer, unpublished letter, incipit: ‘Monsieur/Je vous accuse le reçu
    de deux Volumes Beytraege’.


53. In Cécile Charlotte becomes the fictional character ‘Cécile de Walterbourg’.


54. Despite its many inaccuracies Dorette Berthoud’s La Seconde Madame Benjamin
    Constant (Lausanne: Payot, 1943) remains an indispensable guide to Charlotte von
    Hardenberg’s life and her relationship with Constant.


55. Harold Nicolson, Benjamin Constant, London: Constable, 1949, p. 87.


56. The incident is recounted in his letter to Isabelle of 28 April 1794 (Charrière,
    Œuvres, IV, pp. 410–11) and is worth quoting in full:

Before I go any further I must give you quite an amusing example of

Charlottechen’s stupidity. At a time when my love was only sickly

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