- Such is the uncompromisingly hostile view of Henri Guillemin in Benjamin
Constant muscadin 1795–1799, Paris: Gallimard, 1958, pp. 172–4. - See Maurice Déchery, op. cit., p. 161.
- See Henri Guillemin, Madame de Staël et Napoléon ou Germaine et le Caïd ingrat,
[n.p.]: Le Pavillon, Roger Maria Editeur, 1966. Once again the late Henri
Guillemin’s polemical flair, supported by an unusual mixture of genuine if selective
historical research and profound antipathy to Madame de Staël and Constant makes
this a book to be approached with great circumspection. - Melegari (1895), p. 274, where however the letter is wrongly dated 22 February
1798. - Quoted in Henri Guillemin, Benjamin Constant muscadin 1795–1799, op. cit., pp.
200–1. - Staël, Correspondance générale, IV/1, p. 135, note 1, and p. 137, note 4.
- Benjamin Constant, Cent lettres, choisies et présentées par Pierre Cordey, Lausanne:
Bibliothèque romande, 1974, pp. 77–8. - Melegari (1895), p. 269, letter from Constant to Anne de Nassau dated ‘Hérivaux ce
10 Messidor An 5’. Melegari has both the day and year wrong: it is in fact 28 June
(Melegari’s error), and 1798 not 1797 (Constant’s slip of the pen). - Melegari (1895), p. 268, see preceding note.
- Charrière, Œuvres, V, p. 509.
- Charrière, Œuvres, V, pp. 466–7.
- The unpublished manuscript ‘L’Affaire de mon Père’ (Lausanne, Bibliothèque
cantonale et universitaire, Fonds Constant II, MS 34/4), a notebook with 175 pages
of transcribed letters, calculations and comments in which Constant chronicles the
history of his financial disagreements with his father gives a number of different
dates for when he learnt about Juste’s marriage, but it seems likely that it was during
1798. Certainly by December 1798 he was referring to the marriage in a letter to his
cousin Rosalie de Constant (Benjamin et Rosalie de Constant, Correspondance
1786–1830, ed. Alfred et Suzanne Roulin, Paris: Gallimard, 1955, p. 19). - Etienne Hofmann, Les ‘Principes de politique’ de Benjamin Constant. La Genèse
d’une œuvre et l’évolution de la pensée de leur auteur (1789–1806), Geneva: Droz
(Travaux d’histoire éthico-politique XXXIV), 1980, 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 170 ff. - On this question see Lucia Omacini’s critical edition of Germaine de Staël’s Des
circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la Révolution et des principes qui
doivent fonder la République en France, Geneva-Paris: Droz, 1979, p. xxiv. - Quoted in English in Christine Chicoteau, Chère Rose. A Biography of Rosalie de
Constant (1758–1834), Berne, Frankfurt am Main, Las Vegas: Peter Lang
(Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 13, Franz. Sprache u. Literatur, Bd. 65),
1980, p. 232. - Charrière, Œuvres, V, p. 503.
- Benjamin Constant, De la justice politique. Traduction inédite de l’ouvrage de
William Godwin: ‘Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General
Virtue and Happiness’, ed. Burton R.Pollin, Québec: Les Presses de l’Université
Laval (Droit et science politique, 5), 1972.
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