on BC’s relationship with father 41, 263n;
on BC’s relationship with Isabelle de Charrière 90, 94
Lacan, Jacques, on acquisition of language 18, 30, 260n
Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de 284;
Les Liaisons dangereuses 163
Lafayette, General Marquis de 80, 227, 249, 250;
BC staying with 240
Lafitte, Jacques, BC’s gambling debts to 236, 246, 247
Laing, Malcolm, History of Scotland (1802) 50, 58
de Lamoignon, Auguste 157, 158, 159, 160, 161
de Langalerie, Charles (BC’s cousin) 183
Langer, Ernst Theodor, on French Revolution 123, 126, 131
language:
acquisition of 17, 18;
interest in evolution of 60
Lascelles, Henry 98
Lausanne:
BC and Minna’s visit to (1789) 116;
BC’s dislike of 69–71, 80, 103, 128, 269n
Lawrence, D.H., relationship with John Middleton Murry 56
Lebrun, as Consul 153
Leipzig, Battle of (1813) 205
Léon, Paul, Benjamin Constant 262
Lévy, Bernard-Henri 4
Lezay-Marnésia, Adrien de, On the Weakness of a Government... 144
L’Hardy, Henriette 139
liberalism:
BC’s relationship to 148;
French attitudes to 4;
revival of interest in 242, 254
libertarianism 123, 150
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, satires on German academics 198
de Ligne, Prince 185
Lindsay, Anna 122;
background 157;
and BC’s expulsion from Tribunate 163;
correspondence with BC 157, 158, 161;
friendship with Julie Talma 156, 157, 159–60, 166;
influence on Adolphe 171, 219, 220;
relationship with BC 156–61, 163, 166, 171, 173–4;
translation of Cornelia Knight’s Marcus Flaminius 158
Literary Society see Dialectic Literary Society (Edinburgh)
Loève-Veimars, Baron de, on BC in parliament 229, 296n
Loménie, Louis de, on Louis-Philippe’s gift to BC 247
London, BC and Charlotte visit (1816) 216–18
Louis XVI, King of France 129, 130
Index 343