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He had several liaisons with older women, including Madame de Charrières and Mme de Staël. Germaine de Staël, one of the most brilliant and inɻuential women in Europe, maintained a powerful hold on him for years, their relationship being marked by passionate jealousies and reconciliations. When Constant’s politics incurred Napoleon’s disfavour, he shared Mme de Staël’s exile in 1803. In 1813 he published from Hanover a pamphlet attacking Napoleon, but, nevertheless, took oɽce under Napoleon during the Hundred Days. After the second restoration, he went to London where he published Adolphe in 1816. In Adolphe Constant turned his own experience into one of the most penetrating pieces of psychological analysis of relations between man and woman. He returned to France in 1818, where he became famous as the leader of the Liberal opposition in the Chamber and as a political journalist. His Journaux intimes were not published fully until 1952; Le Cahier Rouge, containing a fascinating account of his youth, was published in 1907; and Cécile in 1931. Benjamin Constant died in Paris in 1830.  \nLEONARD TANCOCK spent most of his life in or near London, apart from a year as a student in Paris, most of the Second World War in Wales and three periods in American universities as visiting professor. Until his death in 1986, he was a Fellow of University College, London, and was formerly Reader in French at the University. He prepared his ɹrst Penguin Classic in 1949 and, from that time, was extremely interested in the problems of translation about which he wrote, lectured and gave broadcasts. His numerous translations for  \nthe Penguin Classics include Zola’s Germinal, Thérèse Raquin, The Débâcle, L’Assommoir and La Bête Humaine; Diderot’s The Nun, Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream; Maupassant’s Pierre and Jean; Marivaux’s Up from the Country; Prévost’s Manon Lescaut; La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims; Voltaire’s Letters on England; Madame de Sévigné’s Selected Letters and The Goncourt Journals.  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction  \nPreface to the Second Edition (1816), Alexander Walker’s translation  \nPreface to the Third Edition (1824) Note by the Publisher  \nADOLPHE  \nLetter to the Publisher, and his Reply  \nINTRODUCTION  \n1  \nTHE French are a self-consciously intellectual race; they have a horror of the unexplained, they must know where they stand, and why. 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