Part I: Constant’s Education: the French, Scottish, and German Enlightenments
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Chapter 1: Childhood
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Chapter 2: Edinburgh
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Chapter 3: Paris
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Chapter 4: Protestantism and the Enlightenment
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Chapter 5: Brunswick
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Chapter 6: Mauvillon, the new German theology and the idea of progressive revelation
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Chapter 7: Constant’s The Spirit of Religions
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Chapter 8: Madame de Stael
Part II: The Crucible of the Directory Years
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Chapter 1: The see-saw policy of the Directory
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Chapter 2: Catholicism and the need for ‘Republican Institutions’
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Chapter 3: Catholic counter-arguments
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Chapter 4: Constant during the Directory
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Chapter 5: Critics of the Directory’s Religious Policies
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Chapter 6: The second Directory and the renewed campaign for Republican institutions
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Chapter 7: Theophilanthropy
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Chapter 8: Lessons of the Directory: William Godwin and Des circonstances actuelles
Part III: Napoleon, or Battling ‘the New Cyrus’
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Chapter 1: Napoleon and the Catholic Revival
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Chapter 2: Enlightened responses and the plan to ‘Protestantize’ France
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Chapter 3: Charles de Villers
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Chapter 4: Bonaparte’s decision
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Chapter 5: Portalis on the Utility of Religion
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Chapter 6: The Concordat and the Organic Articles
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Chapter 7: Friends and foes of the Concordat: from the Génie du christianisme to Delphine
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Chapter 8: Constant’s trip to Germany
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Chapter 9: The Sentiment/Form Distinction
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Chapter 10: Return to Paris (December 1804) and the Debate on a National Religion
Part IV: Constant becomes Constant: From the Principles of Politics (1806) to the Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814)
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Chapter 1: Constant’s Political Principles in 1806
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Chapter 2: ‘Private judgement’ in Protestant Polemics
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Chapter 3: Book VIII: On Religious Freedom
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Chapter 4: Constant’s ‘Corner of Religion’: from the ‘Letter about Julie’ to the Correspondence with Prosper de Barante
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Chapter 5: De l’Allemagne (1810)
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Chapter 6: Constant’s return to Germany
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Chapter 7: The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814)
Part V: Politics and Religion during the Restoration (1814–24)
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Chapter 1: Keeping Political Liberty Alive
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Chapter 2: Keeping Religious Liberty Alive
Part VI: The ‘Protestant Bossuet’: De la religion in Political Context (1824–30)
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Chapter 1: De la religion, volume I (May 1824), Reviews of volume I
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Chapter 2: Charles X and ‘the invasion of priests’, Constant’s article ‘Christianity’, Professions of Protestantism
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Chapter 3: De la religion, volume II (October 1825)
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Chapter 4: The Problem with Industrie: Constant and religion seen from the Left
Part VII: Constant’s Legacy
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Chapter 1: The Revolution of 1830
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Chapter 2: Constant’s declining reputation