capacity for love 41–2;
career at court of Duke of Brunswick 103, 104, 105, 106–33;
character 6–7, 25–6;
as ‘chameleon’ 154–5;
conceit 103;
describes himself as a ‘shade’ 171–2;
desire for fame 242;
desire for solitude 121, 126–7, 131–2;
difficulty in dealing with separation 133, 143–4, 149–50, 173;
expressions of cruelty 27–8;
fear of rejection 41–2;
love of animals 98, 115;
love of cats 300n;
multi-faceted and contradictory 125;
need of mothering 165;
need for praise 33;
need for security to study 170–1;
obsession with death 129–30, 222, 224, 243, 251, 252–3;
fear of being buried alive 300n;
oddity 58–9;
opportunism 148, 151–2;
oppositional nature 6;
patience with Charlotte 300n;
sharpness of tongue 110;
suicidal tendencies 65, 120;
violence 33
and Charlotte see Constant,
Charlotte;
childhood bullying 71;
contemplates marriage to Antoinette de Loys (cousin) 171, 182;
correspondence:
with Anna Lindsay 157, 158, 161;
with Anne de Nassau (aunt) 111, 115, 129–30, 131, 144–5, 146, 148–50, 183,
185, 186, 187, 189–90, 198–9, 202;
with Charlotte 169, 178–9, 235–6;
with Claude Fauriel 165;
with Claude Hochet 196, 203, 206–7;
with ‘Eliane’ 225–6;
with family 97;
with Germaine de Staël 198, 204, 207–8;
with Johann Rudolf Knecht 97;
with John Wilde 69, 97, 98, 109, 284n;
with Julie Talma 157, 161;
with Juliette Récamier 224;
with Madame Johannot 66–7, 68, 109;
with Prosper de Barante 187, 248;
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