Benjamin Constant

10 ADOLPHE (1816–1819)

1. Quoted in Adolphe, ed. Paul Delbouille, p. 273.


2. Quoted in Harold Nicolson, Benjamin Constant, London: Constable, 1949, pp. 243–
   4.


3. On this subject, see the highly original article by Georges Pholien, ‘Adolphe et son
   public’, Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France, janvier-février 1985, pp. 18–25.


4. See Dennis Wood, ‘Le Rousseauisme de Constant’, in Rousseau et le dixhuitième
   siècle: Essays in Memory of R.A.Leigh, ed. Marian Hobson, John Leigh and Robert
   Wokler, Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1992.


5. On the complexity of Adolphe, see Alison Fairlie, Imagination and Language.
   Collected Essays on Constant, Baudelaire, Nerval and Flaubert, ed. Malcolm
   Bowie, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 3–125, and Dennis
   Wood, Benjamin Constant: ‘Adolphe’, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
   (Landmarks of World Literature), 1987.


6. Constant, Œuvres, p. 814.


7. Quoted in C.P.Courtney, A Bibliography of Editions of the Writings of Benjamin
   Constant to 1833, London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1981, pp. 47
   and 49.


8. C.P.Courtney, op. cit., p. 49.


9. Quoted in Benjamin Constant, Adolphe. Anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d’un
   inconnu, ed. C.P.Courtney, Oxford: Basil Blackwell (Blackwell French Texts),
   1989, pp. 126–7.


10. C.P.Courtney, op. cit., p. 63. On Alexander Walker, see C.P.Courtney, ‘Alexander
    Walker and Benjamin Constant: a note on the English translator of Adolphe’, French
    Studies, XXIX (1975), pp. 137–50.


11. The correspondence between Rosalie and Charles de Constant is quoted in Paul
    Delbouille’s edition of Adolphe, pp. 266–70.


12. Ibid., p. 276.


13. Benjamin Constant, Mémoires sur les Cent-Jours. Texte établi par Kurt Kloocke.
    Introduction et notes par André Cabanis (Œuvres complètes de Benjamin Constant,
    série I, vol. 14), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1993. See also Constant, Œuvres,
    pp. 810, 816, 1585–6. On 9–11 June 1816 Constant visited John Cam Hobhouse and
    his family at Whitton Park, Hounslow, to the west of London (pp. 816 and 1589).


14. Constant, Œuvres, p. 819. On Constant and the Reverend May, see C.P. Courtney,
    ‘Benjamin Constant et Nathaniel May: documents inédits’, Revue d’histoire
    littéraire de la France, 66e année, no. 1 (janvier-mars 1966), pp. 162–78. Constant
    wrote to May in English from Sevenoaks, Kent, on 25 July 1816:

My dear Friend

I had brought with me today a preface I have added to the 2d edition of Adolphe &

which I think you have not seen. But the pleasure of talking with you made me

forget to leave it. I hereby inclose it in my letter & take this opportunity of repeating

to you how happy I have been to find you again after so long an absence, & how

much I rejoice at the hope of visiting you after my return. My wife regrets her

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