OEuvres complètes, IV, Correspondance 1800-1802
Author: Benjamin Constant Series: Quatrieme Periode (1821-1830)
This fourth volume of the ACorrespondance generaleA contains 368 letters written during the period of the Consulat when, as a member of the Tribunat until January 1802, Constant acquired a reputation as a brilliant orator and outspoken opponent of Bonaparte. It was also a period when he produced a number of manuscripts on politics and religion on which he would base works published between 1814 and 1830. The correspondence also contains letters of compelling human interest to and from Julie Talma and an extraordinary epistolary exchange with Anna Lindsay, with whom Constant fell in love in 1800.
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This fourth volume of the ACorrespondance generaleA contains 368 letters written during the period of the Consulat when, as a member of the Tribunat until January 1802, Constant acquired a reputation as a brilliant orator and outspoken opponent of Bonaparte. It was also a period when he produced a number of manuscripts on politics and religion on which he would base works published between 1814 and 1830. The correspondence also contains letters of compelling human interest to and from Julie Talma and an extraordinary epistolary exchange with Anna Lindsay, with whom Constant fell in love in 1800.
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This fourth volume of the Correspondance generale contains 368 letters written during the period of the Consulat when, as a member of the Tribunat until January 1802, Constant acquired a reputation as a brilliant orator and outspoken opponent of Bonaparte. It was also a period when he produced a number of manuscripts on politics and religion on which he would base works published between 1814 and 1830. The correspondence also contains letters of compelling human interest to and from Julie Talma and an extraordinary epistolary exchange with Anna Lindsay, with whom Constant fell in love in 1800.
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Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was a French-Swiss po-liti
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was a French-Swiss po-litical writer and novelist. He combined a lively political carecal writer and novelist. He combined a lively political career with a fertile literary output, while entertaining a serier with a fertile literary output, while entertaining a series of liaisons with some of Frances most prominent women. Coes of liaisons with some of Frances most prominent women. Constant was an able parliamentarian, a cham-pion of liberalisnstant was an able parliamentarian, a cham-pion of liberalism a
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