advises BC to marry Antoinette de Loys 182;
approval of BC 117;
army career 70;
attitude to BC 10–13;
BC appeals on behalf of 120;
BC breaks free from 89;
BC defends against Isabelle de Charrière 116–17;
BC helps in legal disputes 140, 199;
and BC’s flight to England (1787) 97, 101–2;
and BC’s marriage to Minna von Cramm (1789) 114, 115;
BC’s plea for affection from 196–7;
on BC’s progress 59;
BC’s reaction to death of 199–200;
and BC’s stay in Paris (1785) 65;
BC’s worries for 110, 115;
in BC’s writings 14;
business affairs 134;
concern over BC’s behaviour 144, 153;
correspondence, with brother Samuel 35–6, 105, 117;
court cases 110, 113–14, 115, 120, 129, 281n;
death 13, 31, 199;
and death of wife 9–13, 20–1;
demands help in legal disputes 199;
detachment 20–2;
and dispute over BC over Marianne 121–2;
family support for 113–14;
financial disputes with BC 101, 172, 174, 194–5, 198–9;
gains French citizenship 145;
Gibbon’s impression of 77–8;
hatred of Bernese 113;
illtreatment of BC 199;
letter from Philippe Rivier 97–8;
letters to Sir Robert Murray Keith 40, 44–5;
and Marianne 2–3, 28–31, 120, 122, 150;
and mutiny in regiment 102–3, 104, 113;
and Nathaniel May 34–5, 37–8;
plans court career for BC 103, 108;
recalls BC to Holland 91–2;
rehabilitation of 144;
relationship with BC 10–13, 16, 20–2, 34–5, 41–2, 76, 78–9, 102, 107, 121–2, 153,
172–3, 251–2, 277n;
relationship with parents 22, 29, 30, 35–6;
restrained character 11–13;
sides with Germaine de Staël 199;
stubbornness 195;
suggests BC marry his cousin 150;
Index 334