Coppet, 10–13 juillet 1974, ed. Simone Balayé et Jean-Daniel Candaux, Geneva:
Slatkine; Paris: Champion (Bibliothèque de littérature comparée, 118), 1977. (See
also the journal Cahiers staëliens [nouvelle série], published since 1962 by the
Société des études staëliennes, passim.) Among the most prominent habitués of
Coppet or friends or correspondents of Germaine de Staël at one time or another
were the historians Prosper de Barante, Simonde de Sismondi and Charles-Victor de
Bonstetten; the important intermediary between French and German culture, Charles
de Villers; the German philologist and anthropologist, Wilhelm von Humboldt
(1767–1835); the poet and author of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
(1814), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838); and of course the critic and scholar
August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
- On the genesis of De l’Allemagne, see the introduction to Simone Balayé’s edition
(Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1968), 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 17–31.
- Quelques réflexions sur la tragédie de Wallstein et sur le théâtre allemand,
published as an introduction to the 1809 edition of Wallstein and reproduced in Jean-
René Derré’s critical edition (see above, note 22), pp. 47–67.
- Jean-René Derré, op. cit., p. 5, remarks:
Although it had a mixed reception, [Wallstein’s] success was
undeniable. All two thousand copies were sold within two months,
and numerous reviews appeared in the press. Even if...these reviews
tell us more about the preferences or mood of their authors, their
sheer number clearly shows the interest aroused by a work which, in
France under the Empire, passed for something of a literary event.
34.
Kurt Kloocke, Benjamin Constant: une biographie intellectuelle, Geneva-Paris:
Droz (Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 218), 1984, p. 337.
- Menos, p. 302.
- Ibid., p. 288, letter of 15 December 1808 from Constant to the Comtesse de Nassau.
- Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 426.
- Kurt Kloocke, op. cit., p. 337.
- Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., pp. 430–1.
- Dorette Berthoud, La Seconde Madame Benjamin Constant, Lausanne: Librairie
Payot, 1943, p. 191.
- Ghislain de Diesbach, op. cit., p. 434.
- Wolfenbüttel, Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv, MS 264 N II s. 12 Nr 23, dossier
compiled by Charlotte’s son, Wilhelm von Marenholtz entitled ‘Papiers concernant
le mariage de ma mère avec Mr Du Tertre et Mr B.Constant’. The dossier contains
some seventeen receipts from Du Tertre to Charlotte for monies received over the
period 1811–25 under the terms of the legal agreement they had reached on 26 June
1807. One of these receipts, dated 27 May 1821, includes a brief note:
Dear Charlotte, I have been given your letter of last night. Thank you
for being so precise and for the advance you are letting me have. It
will come in very handy because I'm very short of money. As for the
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