after assassination of Duc de Berry (1820) 230–1;
by Directory 7, 142–4, 146, 147, 151;
Chambre introuvable 223;
of Charles X 238–9, 246–7
intervention in Spain 7;
Juste de Constant moves to 120;
les nouveaux philosophes 4;
outbreak of war with Britain (1803) 166;
prospect of civil war (1797) 147;
war with Germany 193–4
France, Anatole 254
Francillon, Roger, ‘Benjamin Constant ou la Suisse refoulée’ 269
Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg 147
freedom, individual:
BC’s belief in 4–5, 6–7, 239, 252;
under Second Restoration 222–3
French Revolution 118;
BC argues with Isabelle de Charrière over 123;
BC’s attitude to 104, 118–19, 123, 132;
Duke of Brunswick leading military opposition to 120, 123;
effects of 130;
Isabelle de Charrière’s attitude to 119;
revolutionary calendar 134, 140, 141;
supporters of 129, 133;
Terror 123, 130, 141
Freud, Sigmund, and Freudianism 17–18, 217, 260n
friendship:
Classical model 56;
and sexuality 56
von Fürstenstein, Count 191
Galitzin, Prince see Golitsyn
Gall, Dr Franz Joseph, and phrenology 185
gambling 63–5, 79–80, 90–2, 105, 112, 116, 187, 194, 211, 212, 247, 266n, 268n
Garat 80, 211
Gauchet, Marcel (ed.), De la liberté chez les Modernes. Ecrits politiques 258n
Gelehrten-Club (Göttingen) 202, 207
general will, Rousseau’s concept of 232
Gengembre, Gérard, ‘Le Cercle constitutionnel’ 281n
Germany:
BC’s interest in 130–1, 235;
BC’s nostalgia for (1818) 226;
BC’s visit to with Germaine de Staël (1803–4) 166–70;
formality of court life 108, 109–10;
Germaine de Staël’s attitude to 185, 193–4, 285n;
war with France 193–4;
Index 339