with Johann Rudolf Knecht 78–9;
with John Wilde 51–7, 79, 98, 99;
with Julie Talma 145, 155, 156, 157, 171, 174;
with Juliette Récamier 210, 211–12, 215;
with Marie-Charlotte Johannot 66–8;
with Mrs Harriet Trevor 74–7, 79, 91;
with Nathaniel Bridges 99, 100–1;
with Richard Kentish 98–9, 101;
with Schiller 168, 169;
with Sir James Mackintosh see Mackintosh, Sir James;
with Sophie von Schardt 169, 215, 286n
funeral 249–50;
gains French citizenship 145;
gambling 40, 54, 59, 63–5, 74, 79–80, 90–2, 105, 116, 156, 187, 194, 211–12, 236,
247;
gift for language 228;
gives lectures on history of religion (1818) 225, 226;
health 140;
creeping paralysis 248;
depression 8, 23–6, 117, 118, 119–20, 173, 174, 175, 221, 223, 225–6;
and excessive sexual demands 184;
eye trouble 107, 164, 176, 233, 237, 260n;
general decline 245–6, 248;
leg injury 226, 231, 232, 233, 247, 295–6n;
possible minor stroke (1824) 238;
and sexual appetite 170;
venereal disease 104–5, 106, 107, 267n;
worries about 116
held in prison 142;
and possible homosexuality 42, 56–7, 78–9;
as infant prodigy 10, 45;
interest in emigrating to America 97, 98;
learning Greek 14, 15;
leaves France for Lausanne (1811) 194;
lectures, at the Athénée royal 229–30;
library 172;
literary career:
begins first novel 99–100;
methods of composition 228;
modern interest in 4, 258n;
as novelist 180;
planned translation of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall 69
literary success 206, 254–5;
marriage to Minna von Cramm 114–16, 119–23, 125–6, 131–2, 142, 181, 199, 276n;
membership of Speculative Society 45–6, 47–8;
moves to Brussels (Oct. 1815) 215–16;
Index 329