and Isabelle de Charrière 81, 82–3, 272n;
An Account of Corsica 83
Böttiger, Karl August, director of Weimar Gymnasium 168
Boulay de la Meurthe, Antoine-Jacques-Claude-Joseph 152
de Bourbonne, Madame 79
Bourbons:
Berton plot against (1822) 232;
restoration of 206;
see also Charles X;
Louis XVIII
Bourget, Paul 254
Bouterwek, Friedrich, Professor of Philosophy 198
Boutmy, François-Louis-Charles 163
Bowie, Malcolm, Lacan 260n
Bowlby, John:
on children and suicide 23, 24, 261n;
on effects of separation 10, 260n;
on failures in communication 11–12;
and interpretation of BC’s early childhood 19, 22–6;
Charles Darwin. A Biography 11–12, 260n
Bra, Théophile, bust of BC 253, 300n
Bressler, Henri, on Juste de Constant 274n
Bridges, Nathaniel, rector of Wadenhoe 36–7, 99, 100–1, 262n
Brissot, Jacques-Pierre 129, 130
Britain:
constitutional monarchy 231, 240;
Germaine de Staël’s attitude to 185;
Luddite unrest 239;
Napoleon plans invasion of (1805) 175;
outbreak of war with France (1803) 166;
parliamentary opposition 6;
support of French émigrés 141
De Broglie family, and Constant’s promiscuity 5
Broglie, Victor de:
on BC’s readings of Adolphe 217;
marriage to Albertine 213, 224
Brunswick:
BC’s dislike of 110, 112;
cultural life 109, 110;
Große Klub zu Braunschweig 109, 110, 112, 131
Brunswick, Duchess of 108;
role in BC’s marriage to Minna von Cramm (1789) 114–15, 276n
Brunswick, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of 103, 104, 105, 108, 109, 275n;
BC appeals to on behalf of Juste 114;
and BC’s marriage 114–15, 116;
BC’s praise of 131;
Index 322