This volume contains 305 letters covering three years of Constanta (TM)s life in which he finally experienced a happy marriage. However, these years were overshadowed by Germaine de StaAla (TM)s misfortune, by his enormous gambling losses and also by a dispute with his father which was to last until his fathera (TM)s death. Constant left France and traveled to Switzerland and Germany, but he could not find the happiness he had hoped fora ' not even in the seclusion of German libraries.