Augereau, General 147
Austria, defeated by Napoleon 175
Balayé, Simone 116, 287n, 290n
Balfour, Robert, History of the Speculative Society of Edinburgh 52
Barante, Prosper de 175, 184, 289n;
admiration for Adolphe 220;
correspondence with BC 187, 248;
elected to Académie Française 243;
and Germaine de Staël 175, 176–7, 187, 194;
in love with Juliette Récamier 193, 210
Barbey, Frédéric, Libertés vaudoises 269n
Barras, Paul:
on Albertine de Staël’s resemblance to BC 147, 281n;
BC asks for political support from 149;
BC’s defence of 139, 151;
seizes power (1797) 147–8
Baumier, Pastor 65
Beaune (BC’s secretary) 249, 300n
Belle de Zuylen see de Charrière, Isabelle
Benay, Lieutenant Sigismond 91–2, 94
Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Professor of German Philology 198
Benjamin Constant, Madame de Staël et le Groupe de Coppet (conference, 1980) 4, 258n
bereavement:
in children 10, 11–13, 25–6, 260n;
and ‘disordered mourning’ 25–6
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, Four Essays on Liberty 4, 258n
Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden:
BC’s support for 7, 203–4, 206–7, 292n;
opposition to French 202, 204–5, 206
Berne:
banning of Knecht for pederasty 116;
domination of Pays de Vaud 102–3, 113, 148–9
Berry, Duc de, assassination of (1820) 230
Berry, Mary, on public reading of Adolphe 217–18
Berthoud, Dorette:
Constance et grandeur de Benjamin Constant 296n, 298n;
La Seconde Madame Benjamin Constant 249, 277n, 278n, 287n
Bertin, Louis-François (‘Bertin de Veaux’), article attacking BC 145
Blacons, Marquis de, death 174
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, Professor of Medicine 198, 202–3
Boislesve, Rev. Pierre 185
Bonaparte, Joseph 213
Bonaparte, Napoleon see Napoleon
Bonstetten, Charles-Victor de 171, 289n
Boswell, James:
Index 321