Senegal, BC’s opposition to slavery in 7, 230, 231, 254, 297n
separation:
BC’s fear of 143–4, 173, 174;
effect on children 25–6
de Sévery, Salomon (BC’s uncle) 77
de Sévery, William, La vie de société dans le Pays de Vaud 269n, 270n, 275n, 276n
Shakespeare, William, and ‘Negative Capability’ 25
Sibuet, Georges 149
Sieyès, Emmanuel-Joseph 139;
BC’s support for 151–2;
conspiracy with Bonaparte 152;
and Constitution of Year VIII (1799) 153;
What is the Third Estate? 151
Sirice, Philippe (Le Doyen Bridel) (BC’s teacher) 38–9
Sismondi, Simonde de 171, 289n, 299n;
on Adolphe 220;
on BC and his father 21;
correspondence with BC 233–4, 240;
Histoire des Français 233–4
slavery, BC campaigns against 230, 231, 239, 241, 254, 297n
Société des Amis de la Liberté de la Presse 224–5
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, The Gulag Archipelago 4
Sophie Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (‘Madame la Margrave’) 39, 40–1
de Souza, Don Pedro 177
Spain, French intervention in civil war 233, 234, 239
Speculative Society (Edinburgh debating society) 43–8, 69, 98, 264–5n;
BC’s membership of 52–3;
debate on Ossian 49;
History of (1845) 52, 57;
Macfarlan on 58;
Macknight’s memoir of 53–4, 58;
Minute Book 47–8, 57;
and Thomas Addis Emmet 51
Spice, Nicholas 270n
de Staël, Albert 193;
death 204
de Staël, Albertine 147, 167, 175, 182;
antagonism towards BC 224;
death 253;
marriage to Victor de Broglie 213, 217;
resemblance to BC 171
de Staël, Auguste 186, 193, 206;
death 242
de Staël, Germaine:
admiration for Bonaparte 148;
in Adolphe 235;
Index 351