# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:02:24.263Z

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description: "The political theorist who kept switching sides during the French Revolution's chaos — backing coups, opposing Napoleon, then drafting his constitution during the Hundred Days — before spending a decade as the sharpest liberal voice in the Chamber of Deputies, arguing that liberty meant the state leaving people alone."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Swiss in 1767, Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque became a committed republican by 1795 and supported the coups of 1797 and 1799 that reshaped France. He led the Liberal opposition during the Consulate until he upset Napoleon and fled to Switzerland and Saxony, though he returned to draft the Charter of 1815 during the Hundred Days. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818, he remained until his death in 1830, leading the Indépendants as one of the most notable parliamentary orators and refining the concept of liberty as freedom from state interference. He also moved in the Coppet circle as Madame de Staël's protégé and collaborator, writing on romantic love in his autobiographical Le Cahier rouge (1807) and the novella Adolphe (1816). During the July Revolution he backed Louis Philippe I's ascension to the throne.