Benjamin Constant

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friendship with Juliette Récamier 193, 210, 223;
gains French citizenship 145, 146;
gives birth to son (1812) 201;
identified in Adolphe 219–20;
influence on BC 137–8;
influence on BC’s reception in Lausanne 194;
influence of Pietistic group 183;
Isabelle de Charrière’s view of 135, 155;
and Juste de Constant 191;
kept under surveillance by Baron Capelle 195;
leaves for Italy (1804) 173;
leaves for Vienna (1807) 184;
marries John Rocca 196;
meeting with BC 135;
opposition to Napoleon 165, 193–4;
paralysis 223–4;
persecuted by Napoleon 198, 282n;
proposes secret marriage to BC 174–5;
quarrel with BC (1806) 177–8;
return to Paris (1814) 207;
returns to Paris (1795) 139;
salon in the Rue du Bac 135, 139, 140;
sexual demands on BC 184;
social life in Vienna 185;
stay in Auxerre (1806) 176–7;
threatens suicide 190;
support for Bernadotte 201–2, 203;
temper 175, 177;
temporary return to France (1803) 166–7;
travels to England (1813) 204;
travels to Germany with BC 167;
travels to Russia (1812) 201–2;
wants money from BC 209–10;
working with BC 144;
works:
De l’Allemagne 185, 192, 193–4, 206, 285n, 290n;
Des circonstances actuelles (essay) 150;
Corinne 180, 181, 182, 185, 290n;
Delphine 164–5, 166;
Dix années d’exil 154;
essay on the influence of the passions 144, 146;
Zulma 135
Staël von Holstein, Baron Eric Magnus 135, 145, 156
Staes, Ferdinand-Philippe-Joseph 34
von Staffhorst, Amalie Magdalene Charlotte 125
Stendhal (Henri Beyle) 238;


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