Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 83, 225
Candide 91;
L’Ingénu 7–8;
Mahomet 176
Voss, Johann Heinrich, Mythologische Briefe 131
Vrindt, Henri, BC’s lawsuit against 129
Wagener, Françoise, biography of Juliette Récamier 210, 211–12
Walker, Alexander, translation of Adolphe 219
war, glorification of under Napoleon 164
Watson-Wentworth, Lady Charlotte, BC’s meeting with 100
Wauchope, James 43–4, 264n
Weimar, BC’s visits to 178, 285n
Werner, Zacharias 186
Wickham, William (British government envoy) 143
Wilde, John 45;
correspondence with BC 97, 98, 109, 284n;
friendship with BC 51–7, 79, 98, 99, 101;
interest in origins of man 60;
mental illness 51, 54, 57, 60, 174, 267n;
political views 57;
reading 59–60;
unconventionality 53–4, 56;
Character of H.B.Constant 54–6, 57, 60, 68
Williams, Roger L., The Horror of Life 267n
Winegarten, René, Madame de Staël 279n
women, BC’s attitude to 26–7, 48, 67
Wood, Dennis:
Benjamin Constant:
‘Adolphe’ 259n, 270n;
‘Benjamin Constant’s first novel’ 275n, 287n;
‘Constant in Britain’ 263n, 269n, 274n;
‘Constant and the case of Ann Hurle’ 261n, 286n;
‘Constant in Edinburgh’ 263n, 268n;
‘Constant’s Cahier Rouge: new findings’ 263n, 273n, 274n;
‘Isabelle de Charrière et Benjamin Constant’ 275n, 278n, 287n;
‘A propos de Constant et John Wilde’ 265n;
‘Le Rousseauisme de Constant’ 292n;
‘The Von Marenholtz papers’ 295n
Index 356