Benjamin Constant

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supervision of BC’s education 33–9;
sympathy for BC on his expulsion from Tribunate 162–3;
takes BC to Paris (1786) 75–6;
visits BC in Paris (1795) 140;
wishes BC to return to Brunswick 141–2
de Constant, Juste (BC’s cousin) 2, 31
de Constant, Lisette (BC’s cousin) 2, 31, 73, 183
de Constant, Louise see Rebecque (de), Louise
de Constant, Rosalie (BC’s cousin) 1, 2, 29, 31–3, 71, 73, 189;
on Adolphe 220, 221–2;
on BC and Madame de Staël 150–1;
BC visits (1824) 235;
and BC’s papers 241;
biography of 261n;
correspondence with BC 73–4, 221–2, 230, 238, 242–6, 248;
death 253;
and Madame de Staël 281n;
support of BC’s desire for freedom 166;
Cahiers verts 20
de Constant, Rose-Susanne (BC’s paternal grandmother) 22, 28, 35;
BC’s relationship with 33;
death 39–40;
and Marianne Magnin 29, 30
de Constant, Samuel (BC’s paternal grandfather) 1, 22
de Constant, Samuel (BC’s uncle) 1, 31, 35–6;
correspondence:
with BC 97, 115, 154;
with Juste 105, 117
death 155–6;
mémoire by BC for 92;
rift with BC 71–4
de Constant, Victor (BC’s cousin) 291n
Constitution:
French 140, 141
abolition of universal suffrage 141;
‘la benjamine’ 214;
‘law of the two-thirds’ 141;
under Napoleon (1815) 214–15;
of Year VIII (1799) 153
Convention:
BC attends meetings of 140;
drawing up new Constitution for France 140
Coppet Group 186, 190, 280n, 289n
Cordey, Pierre, on BC’s birth 259n
Coste, Jacques (editor of Le Temps) 247, 300n
Coulmann, Jean-Jacques 139–40, 234–5, 241, 242, 246;


Index 335
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