Index
Académie Française 224, 243, 248
Adams, John 98
Adolphe 59, 76–7, 91, 95, 102, 107, 110, 122, 124, 125, 131, 149–50;
and BC’s childhood 21, 26–7;
BC’s opinion of 202, 218, 220, 222;
and BC’s story of himself and Charlotte 180, 181;
composition of 174, 192, 286n;
on imprisoned strength 57, 266n;
influence of Anna Lindsay on 158–9, 171, 283n;
and Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses 163;
and Ma Vie 195;
and nature of freedom 6, 206;
paradoxes 245;
and paralysis of will 42, 212;
public readings of 210, 212, 215, 217–18, 221, 222;
publication of (1816) 219–20;
response to 158–9;
revival of interest in 254;
rewriting of 187;
on risks of someone falling in love with you 67, 173;
style 218–19, 228, 253, 293n;
third edition published (1824) 235;
Verhoeff’s study of 26–7, 252
affection, repression of 22
Alexander, Margrave of Ansbach-Bayreuth 39
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia 199, 201–2, 207
Algeria, founding of French colony in 246
Alsace 241–3, 246
Amélie et Germaine see Journaux intimes
America, BC’s interest in emigrating to 97, 98
L’Ami des lois (newspaper) 149
Amiens, Treaty of (1802) 163
amusements, BC’s lack of interest in 144–5
Annales Benjamin Constant 256n, 258n
Appert, Benjamin-Nicolas-Marie, on BC’s gambling 268n
Ariosto 248, 261n
aristocracy see émigrés;
monarchy
Artois, Comte d’ 224
Index 320