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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (French: [kɔ̃stɑ̃]; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
Benjamin Constant (born Oct. 25, 1767, Lausanne, Switz.—died Dec. 8, 1830, Paris) was a Franco-Swiss novelist and political writer, the author of Adolphe, a forerunner of the modern psychological novel.
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Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France’s leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colorful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and ...
Benjamin Constant was the key thinker in the French classical liberal tradition between Montesquieu and Tocqueville. He was born 25 October 1767 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Henriette de Chandieu and Juste Constant de Rebecque.
May 11, 2018 · Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was best known in his lifetime as a politician and political journalist and later as a novelist. With the resurgence of interest in liberal ideas in France in the 1980s, however, his importance as a political theorist has come to be appreciated.
In this often-quoted statement lies the key to Constant’s literary and political success in his own age and his continuing relevance for our own. The period in which he lived - the end of the ancien régime, the Revolution and Terror, the Napoleonic Empire, and the Restoration - had frequently been inimical to personal freedom in France and ...
Benjamin Constant (1767–1830) spent the early years of the French Revolution in a post at a minor German court. He moved to Paris in 1795 and became active in French politics (and became the lover of de Staël).
