Confessions 11, 12–13, 260n;
Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse 24
Rovigo, Duc de 193
Roy, René Le Grand, ‘La passion du jeu chez Benjamin Constant’ 268n
Royal Medical Society 264n
Royer-Collard, Pierre-Paul, opposition to BC 248
Rudler, Gustave:
on BC at Edinburgh 43, 59, 61;
on BC’s attitude to money 30–1;
on BC’s character 24;
on BC’s court career 108, 276n;
on BC’s plans for translations 69;
on BC’s tactlessness 73;
La Jeunesse de Benjamin Constant 10, 20, 40, 259n, 260n, 266n
Russia, Napoleon’s invasion of (1812) 203
Rutter, Michael, on effects of separation 10
Ryder, Dudley, first Earl of Harrowby 86, 273n
Sabran, Elzéar de 177, 181
sacrilege, law on 239
Sade, Marquis de, Justine ou les malheurs de vertu 15
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin 5, 258n, 269–70n
Sainte-Croix, Louis-Claude Bigot de 91
Salm, Club de (republican)
see also Cercle constitutionnel 147
Sartre, Jean-Paul 132
satire, in work of Isabelle de Charrière 88
Saurin, Madame, BC requests loan from 79–80
de Saussure, Louis 85, 86, 273n
de Saussure-Mercier, Madame Alix 86, 273n
Saxe-Weimar, Duchess of 167
Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, Duke of 167, 168, 178
von Schardt, Sophie, relationship with BC 169, 215, 286n
Schermerhorn, Elizabeth W., Benjamin Constant 276n, 286n
Schiller, Friedrich von 168;
Wallenstein 184;
Wilhelm Tell 169, 286n
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von 170, 171, 177, 184, 202, 204;
ordered to leave Coppet 195
Schlichtegroll, Adolf Friedrich helps BC with his ‘Life of Mauvillon’ 286
von der Schulenberg, Countess Anna Ernestine 125
Scott, Geoffrey, The Portrait of Zélide 272n
Scott, Sir Walter 43–4, 46, 52, 57
Seckendorf, Baron 198
Secretan, Philippe (BC’s mentor, 1785) 68
Souvenirs 68
Index 350