de Nassau, Anne (BC’s aunt) 111, 115, 129–30, 131;
BC entrusts with manuscripts 189;
BC keeps marriage to Charlotte secret from 187;
BC’s bequests to 145;
correspondence with BC 144–5, 146, 148–9, 183, 185–7, 189–90, 270n;
on Academy of Sciences of Göttingen 202;
on financial disputes with Juste 198–9;
on Germaine de Staël 149–50
death 209;
intercedes with Madame de Staël 189–90
National, the (newspaper) 246
Nationalism, condemned by BC 7
Necker, Anne-Louise-Germaine see Germaine de Staël
Necker, Jacques 135, 146;
BC borrows from 192;
correspondence with Germaine de Staël 168;
death 169, 174, 286n;
influence on BC 164;
Dernières vues de politique et de finances 164
Necker de Saussure, A., correspondence with Germaine de Staël 167–8
‘Negative Capability’ (Keats) 25
Ney, Marshal 223
Nicolson, Sir Harold:
on BC’s affair with Madame Johannot 67;
on BC’s childhood 16;
on BC’s isolation 31;
on Charlotte 124;
Benjamin Constant 221, 260n
Niddrie and the Wauchope family (Edinburgh) 263–4n
Niemeier, Heinrich Christoph Samuel 182
Nihilism 120
O’Brien (Germaine de Staël’s lover) 165
Odier, Charles, and idea of abandonment 26
O’Donnell, Count Maurice 185, 186
O’Dwyer, Anna see Lindsay, Anna
Oehlenschläger, Adam 186
Orange, Prince of 113–14, 120
Oratory:
BC’s attitudes to 51;
of Irish nationalists 50–1
Ossian controversy 49–50
Oudaille, Father, BC’s feud with 150
Pagès, Jean-Pierre, on Charlotte’s death 301n
de Pange, François 141, 142
Index 347