Decazes, Count 223, 224, 230
Deguise, Alix, Trois femmes: le monde de Madame de Charrière 280n
Deguise, Pierre, Benjamin Constant méconnu 268n, 288n
d’Eckstein, Baron, religious argument with BC 235
Deleschaut, Dr Joseph 104
Delbouille, Paul:
critical editions of Adolphe and Cécile 256;
on genesis of Adolphe 287n;
on style of Adolphe and Cécile 290n
democracy:
abolition of universal suffrage in French Constitution (1795) 141;
BC’s opposition to universal suffrage 232, 240;
double voting 230;
franchise limited to richest 25 per cent 246
depression, in children 22–3
Descartes, René, Meditations 59
D’Hermenches, Auguste, and BC’s papers 241
D’Holbach, BC’s admiration for 69
Dialectic Literary Society (Edinburgh) 57–8
Dickens, Charles, on sense of abandonment 20, 261n
dictatorship, and French Constitution of Year VIII (1799) 153
Dictionary of National Biography (ed. Sir Leslie Stephen) 264n
Diesbach, Ghislain de, Germaine de Staël 177, 223, 279n, 285n, 287n
Directory, government by 7, 142–4, 146, 147, 151
divorce:
attitudes to under Napoleon 181;
Isabelle de Charrière’s opposition to 87
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, gambling 63
Douglas, General Sir Robert 45
Drummond, Charles 157
Drummond, Louis 157
Du Tertre, Charlotte see Constant, Charlotte
Du Tertre, Vicomte Alexandre 166, 173–4, 175, 178, 179, 189, 190, 236;
marriage to Charlotte 180, 181, 182, 185
Duncan, Andrew, Professor of Medicine 43, 45
Duplessis (BC’s tutor) 34
Durbach, François-Jean-Frédéric, BC’s association with 209, 215
Ebray, Pastor Jean-Henry 186
Edgeworth, Maria, description of BC 237
Edinburgh, BC’s visit to (1787) 99, 101
Edinburgh Review, on Malcolm Laing 50
Edinburgh, University of academic standing 197;
atmosphere in 1780s 43, 47;
BC’s gambling at 64–5;
BC’s time at 41, 43–62;
Index 337