Paoli, Pascal 83
Pascal, Blaise 118
patriotism 244
Pelet, Paul-Louis, ‘Le premier duel de Benjamin Constant’ 275n
Perey, Pastor Samuel-Benjamin 28
perfectibility, belief in 150
phrenology, BC’s interest in 185
Pictet, Marguerite 31
Pictet-Diodati, J.-M. 153
Pindar, Odes 59
Pius VII, Pope 172
Playfair, Professor John 267–8n
du Plessis-Gouret, François 24, 104, 105;
duel with BC 195
Poisson, Georges, Choderlos de Laclos ou l’obstination 284n
Polignac, Prince Jules de, issues Four Ordinances (1830) 246
Poltoratski, Dimitri 46
de Pontécoulant, Comte, Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires 147
Poulet, Georges, Benjamin Constant par lui-même 24, 265n, 268n, 286n
Pourrat, Augustine-Magdeleine 90–2, 100
Pourrat, Jeanne-Jacqueline-Henriette (‘Jenny’), relationship with BC 23, 90–3, 114, 124
press freedom 164;
BC campaigns for 224–5, 230, 231;
and Catholic church 238;
Société des Amis de la Liberté de la Presse 224–5;
under Bonaparte 155;
under Louis XVIII 209, 210
prison, BC’s experience of 142
property, respect for enshrined in French Constitution (1795) 141
protestantism 234;
BC represents as highest point of perfection 168
Prussia, defeat by Napoleon 178
Puppo, Giuseppe and Stephano 65
Raabe, Mechthild on BC’s library borrowings 278
Racine, Jean, Andromaque 183
de Rebecque, Charles (BC’s half brother) 2–3, 29, 150, 172, 191, 196;
wants money from BC 209–10
de Rebecque, Louise (later Baroness d’Estournelles, BC’s half-sister) 2–3, 14, 29, 30,
120, 150, 172, 191, 196, 199;
wants money from BC 209–10
Récamier, Juliette in Adolphe 220;
affair with Chateaubriand 223–4;
correspondence with BC 224;
friendship with Germaine de Staël 193, 210, 223;
hosts public reading of Adolphe 217;
Index 348