Benjamin Constant

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Chaillet, Henri-David, pastor of Colombier 87, 106, 273n
von Chamisso, Adelbert 289n
Chandieu, Angletine-Charlotte de 260n
Chandieu, Benjamin de (BC’s grandfather) 259n
Chandieu, Françoise-Marie-Charlotte de (née de Montrond, BC’s maternal grandmother)
2, 9
Chandieu, Henriette de (BC’s mother) 5, 9–13, 26–7, 94
Charles X, King of France 237–8, 239, 242, 246;
and Four Ordinances 246, 247;
uprising against (1830) (July Revolution) 246–7
Charrière, Charles-Emmanuel de:
acts as BC’s second in duel 104;
BC borrows money from 94, 119, 273n;
character 84;
correspondence with Dudley Ryder 86, 273n;
possible infidelity 85–8;
marriage to Isabelle 83–4;
and Pourrat affair 91
Charrière, Isabelle de 13, 32;
in Adolphe 219, 220;
background 81–2;
BC finds publishers for 155, 161;
on BC and Germaine de Staël 150;
BC meets again (1787) 103;
BC tries to find publisher for 155, 161;
BC visits (1798–9) 151;
on BC’s character 154–5, 161, 216;
and BC’s expulsion from Tribunate 162;
and BC’s flight to England (1787) 92–3, 94;
beauty 81;
on changes in BC (1795) 139;
correspondence with BC 23–4, 67, 69–70, 74, 79, 96, 96–7, 99–101, 106, 108–9, 112–
13, 116–18, 119–20, 121, 122, 127–8, 176, 267n;
correspondence with BC:
on Charlotte 134;
on French Revolution 134;
on Laclos 163;
on suicide 103–4;
tries to win back friendship 135–6
correspondence with Constant d’Hermenches (BC’s uncle) 81–3, 87;
correspondence with husband 85–6;
death 175–6;
estrangement from BC 132–3, 143–4;
first meeting with BC 86;
and French Revolution 123, 132–3;
on Germaine de Staël 135;


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