Chicoteau, Christine, Chère Rose. A Biography of Rosalie de Constant 261n, 282–3n
children:
depression and guilt 22–3;
and repression of affection 22
Christianity, BC’s relationship with 68;
see also religion
Cicero 148
Clément, Pierre-Paul, Jean-Jacques Rousseau 260n
Clichy, Club de (royalist) 147
Cockburn, Lord, on Andrew Dalzel 61
Colburn, Henry 231;
publishes Adolphe 219
Condé, Prince de 133
Condorcet 80, 163
conferences, on BC 4, 258n
Conseil de guerre national suisse 120, 129
Constant, Benjamin:
ancestry 1–3, 5–6;
and Angletine de Sévery (cousin) 150;
arrives in Paris (1785) 65;
asks aunt to find suitable wife for him (1798) 150;
attitudes:
to father see Constant, Juste;
to marriage 165;
to money 30–1;
to mother 5, 9–13, 26–7, 94;
to tutors 6;
to women 6–7, 26–7, 136, 211;
to work 175, 176
autobiography writing 130;
see also Adolphe;
Cécile;
Ma Vie;
beliefs:
allegiance to France 70, 140;
on freedom 4–5;
growing more moderate 130, 137;
influenced by Jakob Mauvillon 111, 112, 130;
on Jacobinism 104, 130;
opposition to universal suffrage 141, 240;
on subjection of Lausanne 70–1, 102–3, 104;
support of British constitutional monarchy 231
and birth of Albertine de Staël 147;
borrows money 98, 99, 101, 119, 236, 246–7;
burial at Père Lachaise cemetery 249–50;
buys properties in France 141, 146, 166, 211;
Index 326