documents dating from both before and after Constant’s death relating to the printing
and sale of his books, proof if any were needed that Charlotte continued to be active
in the service of her late husband’s literary reputation.
- A photograph of the bust is to be found in the Bibliothèque nationale exhibition
catalogue Benjamin Constant, Paris, 1967, plate VIII.
- Dorette Berthoud, La Seconde Madame Benjamin Constant, Lausanne: Librairie
Payot, 1943, pp. 240 and 242. The Von Marenholtz papers in the Niedersächsisches
Staatsarchiv, Wolfenbüttel, MS 264 N II Nr 23 and 23a, contain the draft of a letter
by Charlotte referring to ‘le Masque en Platre moulé sur feu mon epoux’ (‘the
plaster cast taken of my late husband’); a letter from Théophile Bra to Charlotte
dated 9 October 1833 praising Constant and describing Bra’s plans for a bas-relief
frieze in memory of him (in the ‘Xe liasse’); the letter from ‘Fort Royal Mque/Le
[hole in letter]r 1831’ (in the ‘Xe liasse’); and a letter of condolence dated Toulouse,
30 July 1845, sent to Charlotte’s son Wilhelm by Jean-Pierre Pagès, a close friend of
both Constant and Charlotte and a liberal deputy after 1830, in which Pagès refers to
Wilhelm’s being at Charlotte’s side to comfort her as she lay dying. For an up-to-
date listing of Constant’s manuscripts and their whereabouts, see Etienne Hofmann,
Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre manuscrite de Benjamin Constant, Geneva: Slatkine
(Travaux et recherches de l’Institut Benjamin Constant, No. 1), 1992.
- On the history of Adolphe’s reputation, see Paul Delbouille, Genèse, structure et
destin d’‘Adolphe’, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971.
- To be published by Max Niemeyer Verlag of Tübingen in approximately forty
volumes from 1993 onwards.
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