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and 47.

22. Melegari (1895), p. 236, letter from Constant to his aunt Anne de Nassau of 7 July
    1795.


23. See C.P.Courtney, A Guide to the Published Works of Benjamin Constant, Oxford:
    The Voltaire Foundation, 1985, p. 96, items D1–D3.


24. Charrière, Œuvres, V, pp. 123–4.


25. ‘A Charles His, rédacteur du Républicain français’, Le Républicain français, 6
    Thermidor an III, i.e. 24 July 1795. See C.P.Courtney, op. cit., p. 96, item D4.


26. C.P.Courtney, op. cit., p. 96, item D5.


27. See Jasinski, L’Engagement, Appendice I, ‘Les premières acquisitions de Constant’,
    pp. 271–84. On this period of Constant’s life, 1794–6, Béatrice W.Jasinski’s
    meticulous study—and powerful refutation of the errors and wilful distortions of
    Henri Guillemin, Constant’s most hostile modern critic—is indispensable, as is her
    edition of Germaine de Staël’s Correspondance générale.


28. Staël, Correspondance générale, III/2, pp. 46–9.


29. Jasinski, L’Engagement, pp. 159–60.


30. Jasinski, L’Engagement, pp. 160–70.


31. See Constant, Œuvres, p. 387, diary entry for 7 October 1804 where Constant’s
    memories of that night in prison are described.


32. Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, MS Co 4839/5, decree dated
    Wolfenbüttel, 18 November 1795, unpublished.


33. Cécile, ed. Paul Delbouille, p. 189.


34. Jasinski, L’Engagement, pp. 171–2.


35. Melegari (1895), p. 247, letter from Constant to Anne de Nassau of 10 December
    1795, ‘My departure is fixed for the 20th of this month’.


36. Jasinski, L’Engagement, p. 27.


37. Jasinski, L’Engagement, pp. 175–82.


38. Charrière, Œuvres, V, p. 197, letter of 26 January 1796.


39. Charrière, Œuvres, V, p. 197.


40. Charrière, Œuvres, V, p. 230.


41. See Isabelle de Charrière’s letter to Constant of 28 March 1796, Charrière, Œuvres,
    V, p. 230.


42. 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, p. 202.


43. Letter of 1 March 1796 from Juste to Benjamin Constant copied out by Constant,
    Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Fonds Constant II, MS 34/4:
    ‘Since it was you who prepared everything, it is to you that I owe the deepest debt of
    gratitude.’


44. Jasinski, L’Engagement, pp. 195–204.


45. De la foiblesse d’un gouvernement qui commence, et de la nécessité où il est de se
    rallier à la majorité nationale. See Christian Viredaz, ‘Comptes rendus
    contemporains et réponses aux écrits de Benjamin Constant ( 1787 – 1833 )’, ABC, no.

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