Benjamin Constant

55.

Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 460.

56. Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 463.


57. Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., p. 340.


58. Constant, Œuvres, p. 1551.


59. Le Cahier rouge was the title given to Ma Vie by its first editor, Adrien Constant de
    Rebecque when it was first published in the Revue des deux mondesin January 1907.
    There is a recent tendency among scholars to call the work by the title Constant
    actually gave it.


60. Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 402, letter from Victor to Charles de Constant of 29 October
    1809. Victor de Constant, Benjamin’s cousin, recalls seeing Charlotte in Brunswick
    in 1794 when she showed him Constant’s letters and ‘the beginning of a history of
    his life which he had written at her house’.


61. Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 466.


62. Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 470.


63. Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 470, and Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., pp. 340–1.


64. Constant, Œuvres, pp. 677–823.


65. Benjamin Constant et Madame de Staël, Lettres à un ami. Cent onze lettres inédites
    à Claude Hochet, ed. Jean Mistler, Neuchâtel: A la Baconnière [1949], p. 181.


66. Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., p. 341.


67. Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., p. 342.


68. Benjamin Constant et Madame de Staël, Lettres à un ami. Cent onze lettres inédites
    à Claude Hochet, op. cit., pp. 197–8.


69. Otto Olzien, ‘Benjamin Constant, Göttingen et la Bibliothèque universitaire’, ABC,
    no. 3 (1983), p. 124.


70. Constant, Œuvres, p. 682, diary entry for 22 October 1811: ‘Lichtenberg. I can
    recognize the people in it’.


71. Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., pp. 342–3.


72. Menos, pp. 456–7.


73. Constant, Œuvres, p. 1552.


74. Constant, Œuvres, p. 687.


75. Constant, Œuvres, p. 687.


76. Constant, Œuvres, p. 688.

9 THE END OF AN EMPIRE (1812–1816)

1. Constant, Œuvres, p. 689.


2. Constant, Œuvres, p. 693.


3. Ghislain de Diesbach, Madame de Staël, Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1983,
   p. 478.


4. Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 494.


5. Constant, Œuvres, pp. 686 and 685.


6. Constant, Œuvres, p. 699.

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