in Adolphe and Cécile 181;
after BC’s death 253–4;
BC compares with Germaine de Staël 179;
BC fears for safety of 184;
BC on her character 124, 181, 277–8n;
BC joins her in Besançon 184;
BC keeps marriage secret 187;
BC’s boredom with 201;
BC’s correspondence with Isabelle de Charrière concerning 134;
BC’s jealousy of doctor 190–1;
becomes BC’s lover 179;
compared to Isabelle de Charrière 124;
correspondence with BC 124–5, 132, 166–7, 169, 178–9, 235–6;
death 253, 254;
and death of BC 249;
desire to marry BC 126, 142;
divorce from Baron von Marenholtz 132;
and Germaine de Staël 188, 188–90, 191–3;
illness (1826) 240;
marriage to BC (1808) 186, 187, 233, 236–7, 288–9n;
marriage to Du Tertre annulled 185;
marriage to von Marenholtz 123–4, 125;
meeting with BC 123–4;
meets BC again in Paris (1804) 173–4;
offers to marry BC (1805) 175;
oversees posthumous publication of BC’s works 253, 301n;
political arguments with BC 206;
quarrels with BC 198, 199, 201, 203;
rejoins BC in Brussels (1815) 215–16;
relationship with BC 123–5, 126–7, 142, 143;
returns to Paris with BC (1816) 222;
reunited with BC 186;
state of marriage to BC 233, 236–7;
stays near Brunswick with BC (1813) 204–5;
suicide attempt 189;
tolerance of other women 132, 225;
visits London with BC (1816) 216–18
de Constant de Rebecque, Rose-Susanne (née de Saussure, BC’s paternal grandmother) 1,
9, 33
Constant d’Hermenches, David-Louis (BC’s uncle) 163;
death 86;
and Isabelle de Charrière 81–3, 87, 272n
Constant family, genetic ‘oddness’ 12, 21
de Constant, Juste 1–3, 5–6;
accompanies BC to Edinburgh 43, 44–5;
in Adolphe 219, 220;
Index 333