Charrière, see Dennis Wood, ‘Isabelle de Charrière et Benjamin Constant: à propos
d’une découverte récente’, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, CCXV
(1982), pp. 273–9, Dennis Wood, Isabelle de Charrière et Benjamin Constant:
problématique d’une collaboration’, ABC, no. 4 (1984), pp. 17–30, and for a brief
summary in English, Dennis Wood, ‘Benjamin Constant’s first novel?’, Times
Literary Supplement, 6 February 1981, p. 151.
- Charrière, Œuvres, VI, p. 565, letter to Baron Taets van Amerongen of February
1804.
- Dominique Verrey, Chronologie de la vie et de l’œuvre de Benjamin Constant. Avec
la collaboration du professeur Etienne Hofmann, tome I: 1767–1805, Geneva:
Editions Slatkine, 1992, p. 64, entry 282.
5 THE BRUNSWICK YEARS (1788–1794)
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 49–50.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 51.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 52–3.
- Rudler, Jeunesse, p. 294. See also pp. 291–301 for a description of Court life and
etiquette.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 55–6.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 86.
- Adolphe, ed. Paul Delbouille, pp. 113–16.
- On Constant’s friendship with Mauvillon, see Rudler, Jeunesse, pp. 413–16, and
Marcus Fontius’s useful article ‘Constant und die Mauvillons’ in ABC, no. 10
(1989), pp. 9–23.
- Melegari (1895), pp. 187–8.
- Constant, Œuvres, p. 482.
- Marcus Fontius, op. cit., p. 12.
- Marcus Fontius, op, cit., p. 18.
- Marcus Fontius, op. cit., pp. 17–18.
- ‘hier Benjamin dinna ches Mde De Pailly avec M. Demirabeau’ (‘Yesterday
Benjamin dined at Madame de Pailly’s with Monsieur de Mirabeau’), Constant’s
cousin Charles told his father Samuel de Constant in an undated letter of January
1787 (Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, MS Constant 17, f. 77,
unpublished).
- Marcus Fontius, op. cit., p. 11.
- Charrière, Œuvres, III, p. 74, letter of 19–21 March 1788.
- Benjamin Constant, The Affair of Colonel Juste de Constant and Related Documents
(1787–1796), published with an Introduction by C.P.Courtney, Cambridge: Dæmon
Press, 1990. See also Dominique Verrey, ‘L’affaire Juste de Constant (1787–1796)’
in Benjamin Constant et la Révolution française 1789–1799, ed. Dominique Verrey
et Anne-Lise Delacrétaz, Geneva: Droz, 1989, pp. 73–81.
- Constant, Correspondance I (1774–1792), lettre 54.
- See Constant, Correspondance I (1774–1792), letter from Benjamin Constant to
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