Benjamin Constant

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Prosper de Barante in love with 193, 210;
relationship with BC 183, 210, 211–12, 215;
royalist sympathies 210, 213
Regnault, Wilfrid, BC’s campaigning for 225, 295n
religion:
BC gives lectures on history of 225;
BC’s increasing interest in 68, 112–13, 118, 131, 172, 202;
BC’s interest in Mysticism 215;
BC’s interest in Pietism 183;
BC’s plan to write history of polytheism 49, 62, 68, 137, 138, 220, 222;
interest of James Mackintosh (q.v.) in 49–50;
restoration of in France 161–2;
and tyranny 205–6;
see also Catholic church
repression, under Bonaparte 154, 155
Républicain français, Le, BC’s article in 141
republicanism:
Julie Talma praises BC for 155;
and secular ceremonies 148, 150
di Revel, Ignazio Thaon 118
la Revellière-Lépeaux, L.-M. 147
Revue de Paris, BC’s articles in 245
Rewbell, J.-F. 147, 151
Ribbing, Adolf von, and Madame de Staël 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 280n
Richelieu, Duc de 223, 224, 225, 230
Rivier, Philippe, on BC’s finances 97–8
Rivier-Rose, Théodore, La Famille Rivier 274n
Rivière (copyist) 161
Robert, Ludwig, Die Macht der Verhältnisse 245
Robertson, William, Principal of Edinburgh University 45
Robespierre, Maximilien de 123, 130, 232;
BC’s attitude to 132, 133;
overthrow of 137
Robinson, Henry Crabb 168
Rocca, John, and Germaine de Staël 195–6, 209
Rocca, Louis-Alphonse 201
Rochefort, Christiane, on Freudianism 18
Rockingham, Charles, Marquess of 100
Romanticism 253
Romilly, Sir Samuel 229–30, 296n
Ross, Charles 43
Roulin, Alfred and Suzanne, collection of BC’s letters 32, 262n, 266n, 282n
Rousseau, Isaac 11, 12–13
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 296;
concept of the General Will 232;
and l’éducation négative 18;


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