This critical edition presents the work of Benjamin Constant, author, religious historian and political thinker, in all its uniqueness and diversity. It includes the author s voluminous correspondence. The Collected Works comprise two series, the first containing his works, the second his correspondence. Both series are arranged chronologically. Each volume includes chronological surveys, surveys, a bibliography and an index.
Volume XV presents political texts written by Constant between 1819 and 1821, a period characterized by the success of the liberal party and the great domestic crisis in France caused by the assassination of the Duke of Berry. Constant's writings react to the speeches presented to the Chamber of Deputies and reflect his journalist publications of those years, which will be published in volumes XII and XIII of the uvres complètes.
Paul Delbouille, Université de Liège, Belgien; Kurt Kloocke, Universität Tübingen.
