course of study 60–2
education 15, 17–18
‘Eliane’ (admirer of BC) 225–6
Eliot, George:
moral seriousness 95;
Daniel Deronda 81
émigrés 157;
BC’s fear of return to government 141;
disenfranchisement of 141;
plans to compensate 239;
return to France after Revolution 141;
as secret agents 143
Emmet, Robert 50
Emmet, Thomas Addis 264;
and Irish nationalism 50–1
England, BC’s flight to (1787) 96, 97–101
Erlangen, University of, BC’s studies at (1782–3) 39–41, 64
Esmangart (Strasbourg Prefect), correspondence concerning BC 241, 243
Fabre-Luce, Alfred, compares BC and Chateaubriand 253
Fabri, Amélie, BC plans to marry (1802–3) 114, 165
Fairlie, Alison, on complexity of Adolphe 293n;
on literary qualities of Cécile 290n
Fauriel, Claude, friendship with BC 165, 166, 173, 182, 284n
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain 233
Féronce de Rotencreutz, Jean-Baptiste 108, 126, 131
Filangieri, Gaetano, Science of Legislation 232
Fink, Beatrice Camille, ‘The Idea-World of Benjamin Constant’ 8, 258n, 259n
Flaubert, Gustave 95
Folman, Dr Michel, on BC’s health 238
Fontana, Biancamaria:
Benjamin Constant, Political Writings 5, 258–9n;
Benjamin Constant and the Post-Revolutionary Mind 258–9n
Fontius, Marcus, ‘Constant und die Mauvillons’ 113, 275n
Forbin, Louis-Nicolas-Philippe-Auguste, Comte de 212
Forbin, des Issarts, Charles-Joseph-Louis-Henri, Marquis de 232
Forster, Georg 128–9
Forster, Therese see Huber, Therese
Fouché, Joseph (Bonaparte’s chief of police) 154, 177, 178, 192–4
Fox, Charles James 50
France:
attitude to divorce under Napoleon 181;
attitudes to BC in 162;
Bourbon Restoration 6, 206–16;
and East European Communism 4;
government:
Index 338