In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman. Constant attempted to conceal the fact that these two books were autobiographical. To his friends and acquaintances, however, it was clear that Adolphe was really Benjamin himself. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a champion of liberalism and the author of The History of Religion. Posterity, however, remembers him as the man who bared the anatomy of a destructive passion in the story of...
In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a...
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" Je me suis fait une loi de ne repondre jamais aux critiques; et jusqu'ici celles que j'ai vues m'ont facilite l'observance de cette loi. Cependant, parmi les reproches qu'on a bien voulu diriger contre moi, il en est un qui me semble exiger un eclaircissement non comme accusation, mais comme fait. L'on a dit qu'un etranger ne devait emettre aucune opinion sur la Revolution francaise. Je n'examine pas si, le sort de tous les amis de la liberte etant attache a la France, on peut exiger d'eux une neutralite passive dans une cause qui deci-dera en dernier ressort de leurs destinees. Je me borne...
" Je me suis fait une loi de ne repondre jamais aux critiques; et jusqu'ici celles que j'ai vues m'ont facilite l'observance de cette loi. Cependant, ...
