Benjamin Constant

CONTENTS

List of plates v

Preface vi

  - A NOTE ON BENJAMIN CONSTANT’S FAMILY Brief chronology ix

  - INTRODUCTION

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  - AND HIS FATHER (1767–1783) ‘THE GRIEF THAT DOES NOT SPEAK’: CONSTANT

  
  


• 2 ‘THE CHARMS OF FRIENDSHIP’ (1783–1785)


• 3 ISABELLE DE CHARRIERE (1785–1787)


• 4 ESCAPE (1787–1788)


• 5 THE BRUNSWICK YEARS (1788–1794)


• 6 GERMAINE DE STAEL (1794–1800)


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  - 1806) ‘THE INTERMITTENCES OF THE HEART’ (1800–

  
  


• 8 ‘ITALIAM, ITALIAM’ (1806–1812)


• 9 THE END OF AN EMPIRE (1812–1816)


• 10 ADOLPHE (1816–1819)


• 11 APOTHEOSIS (1819–1830)
  
  
  • EPILOGUE
  
  
  • List of abbreviations used in the notes
  
  
  • Notes
  
  
  • Index