Benjamin Constant

interesting attempt to rewrite Adolphe from Ellénore’s viewpoint, see Eve Gonin, Le

point de vue d’Ellénore. Une réécriture d’‘Adolphe’, Paris: Librairie José Corti,

1981.

7. Anna Lindsay, p. 53.


8. Anna Lindsay, pp. 59–60.


9. Lettres de Julie Talma à Benjamin Constant, ed. Baronne Constant de Rebecque,
   Paris: Plon, 1933, pp. 161–3.


10. Anna Lindsay, p. 126.


11. Anna Lindsay, pp. 129–42.


12. Anna Lindsay, pp. 143–4.


13. Anna Lindsay, pp. 157–8.


14. Anna Lindsay, p. 167.


15. See, for example, Charrière, Œuvres, VI, pp. 351 (22 June 1801), 411–12 (5 August

1801. and 424–5 (22 August 1801).

16. Charrière, Œuvres, VI, p. 429, letter of 19 September 1801: ‘Will you get Les Finch
    [i.e. her novel Sir Walter Finch et son fils William] printed? Can I rely on it?’


17. Charrière, Œuvres, VI, p. 380.


18. Anna Lindsay, pp. 172–4.


19. Lettres de Julie Talma à Benjamin Constant, op. cit., pp. 72–5.


20. See below, note 28. On church-state relations and the revival of religious feeling in
    France under Napoleon, see D.M.G.Sutherland, France 1789–1815: Revolution and
    Counterrevolution, London: Fontana (Fontana History of Modern France), 1985, pp.
    369–74.


21. See Béatrice W.Jasinski, ‘Benjamin Constant tribun’, in Benjamin Constant,
    Madame de Staël et le Groupe de Coppet, ed. Etienne Hofmann, Oxford: The
    Voltaire Foundation; Lausanne: Institut Benjamin Constant, 1982, pp. 63–88, esp. p.


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23. Béatrice W.Jasinski, op. cit., p. 63.


24. Charrière, Œuvres, VI, p. 480.


25. Charrière, Œuvres, VI, p. 484.


26. 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. 461, entry 1797, letter from Juste of late January 1802.


27. Lettres de Julie Talma à Benjamin Constant, op. cit., pp. 188–9.


28. Dominique Verrey, op. cit., p. 462, entry 1798, from Etienne Dumont’s manuscript
    Memorandum Book. From entry 1784 it seems that Constant may also have met
    Laclos on the evening of 26 December 1801.


29. Charrière, Œuvres, III, pp. 60–1.


30. Georges Poisson, Choderlos de Laclos ou l’obstination, Paris: Grasset, 1985.


31. On the possible influence of Laclos on Constant, see A. et Y.Delmas, A la recherche
    des Liaisons dangereuses, Paris: Mercure de France, 1964, pp. 44–6, and Dennis
    Wood, op. cit., pp. 44–5.


32. Staël, Correspondance générale, IV/2, p. 483, note 7.

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