see also Brunswick;
Göttingen;
Weimar
Gibbon, Edward 103, 135;
BC’s meeting with 77–8;
on Juste de Constant 77–8
Gillies, Adam 69
Gillies, John, The History of Ancient Greece 69, 92, 112
Ginguené, P.-L. 147
Glachant, Victor, Benjamin Constant sous l’œil du guet 284n
Glucksmann, André 4
Gobert (BC’s tutor) 34
Godet, Philippe, Madame de Charrière et ses amis 85, 271n, 273n
Godwin, William:
The Adventures of Caleb Williams 144;
Enquiry concerning Political Justice’, BC’s translation of 150, 151, 283n
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 103, 168, 169, 178, 286n;
Götz von Berlichingen 96
Golitsyn (Galitzin), Dmitri Vladimirovich 121, 122, 277n;
and Minna von Cramm 125–6
Gothic style 253
Göttingen:
BC’s attitude to 202, 203;
BC’s stay in (1794) 130–1;
University of 197–8
government, BC’s attitude to 6
Goyet, Charles-Louis-François, and BC’s political career 226–7, 230, 231, 232
Grange, Henri, on Necker’s influence on BC 164
Grant, Lewis 267n
Grant, Sir Alexander, The Story of the University of Edinburgh 61, 264n, 268n
Grattan, Henry, powers of oratory 51
Greece, seeking independence from Turkish rule 7, 239
Greek, teaching of 14, 15, 16
Grenier, David 38
Guex, Germaine, and idea of abandonment 26
Guillemin, Henri:
criticism of BC 7, 259n, 280n, 282n;
Madame de Staël et Napoléon 282n
Guizot 211
Guyon, Madame (French mystic) 183
de la Harpe, Jean-François 146
Helvétius 51, 55, 68, 69;
De l’esprit 68
Herder 168
Heyne, Christian Gottlieb, Professor of Philology 128, 198
Index 340