Benjamin Constant

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  1. Victor Glachant, Benjamin Constant sous l’œil du guet, Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1906,
    pp. 33–6.

  2. Victor Glachant, op. cit., pp. 71–5. In the same letter of 31 July 1802 to his friend
    Claude Fauriel, Constant remarks ‘My friends in Scotland are urging me [to go
    there]’. He was evidently still in contact with John Wilde and perhaps others at this
    date: sadly all this correspondence is now lost.

  3. Melegari (1895), pp. 304–6 and 308–310.

  4. Henri Grange, ‘De l’influence de Necker sur les idées politiques de Benjamin
    Constant’, ABC, no. 2 (1982), pp. 73–80.

  5. Victor Glachant, op. cit., pp. 96–8.

  6. Constant, Œuvres, pp. 223–55.

  7. Constant admired and envied his friends Ludwig Ferdinand and Therese Huber for
    their happy marriage, seeing in it, as Etienne Hofmann has said, ‘a guarantee of
    peace of mind, stability, security and permanence, that is to say the ingredients of
    what [Constant] calls happiness’ (Benjamin Constant, lettres à Louis-Ferdinand et à
    Thérèse Huber (1798–1806)’, ed. Etienne Hofmann, Cahiers staëliens, nos 29–30
    (1981), p. 85).

  8. Ghislain de Diesbach, Madame de Staël, Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1983,
    p. 266.

  9. See Etienne Hofmann, Les ‘Principes de politique’ de Benjamin Constant. La
    Genèse d’une œuvre et l’évolution de la pensée de leur auteur (1789–1806),Geneva:
    Droz (Travaux d’histoire éthico-politique XXXIV), 1980, 2 vols, vol. I, p. 229.

  10. Etienne Hofmann, article quoted from in note 38 above, pp. 108–11.

  11. Lettres de Julie Talma à Benjamin Constant, op. cit., p. 155–7.

  12. Letter of 11 July 1803 to Madame de Nassau, quoted in Henri Guillemin, Pas à pas,
    Paris: Gallimard, 1969, pp. 52–3.

  13. Anna Lindsay, pp. 210–12, letter from Julie Talma to Constant of 5 May 1803.

  14. Benjamin et Rosalie de Constant, Correspondance 1786–1830, ed. Alfred et
    Suzanne Roulin, Paris: Gallimard, 1955, pp. 44–5, letter to Rosalie of 29 August
    1803.

  15. Cécile, ed. Paul Delbouille, p. 191.

  16. Cécile, ed. Paul Delbouille, p. 191.

  17. Cécile, ed. Paul Delbouille, p. 193.

  18. Germaine de Staël, De l’Allemagne, ed. Simone Balayé, Paris: Garnier-Flammarion,
    1968, 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 18–19.

  19. See Kurt Kloocke, Benjamin Constant: une biographie intellectuelle, Geneva-Paris:
    Droz, 1984, p. 120, note 33.

  20. Staël, Correspondance générale, V/1, pp. 101–2 and 109–11.

  21. Constant, Œuvres, p. 422.

  22. Staël, Correspondance générale, V/1, p. 181. While in Gotha Constant met the
    celebrated historian and biographer Adolf Friedrich Schlichtegroll (1765–1822) who
    lent him his Necrolog auf das Jahr 1794 to help Constant in his work on
    Mauvillon’s life. Evidently Constant had not abandoned his plan to write a
    biography of his late friend. A letter from Constant to Schlichtegroll, dated by Kurt


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