Benjamin Constant
French-Swiss politician, writer on politics and religion (1767-1830) · Switzerland · Politicians · Died at 63
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Something wrong?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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Benjamin Constant in het Tribunaat 1800 nummer twee
Benjamin Constant in het Tribunaat 1800In their own words 2
, The aim of the ancients was the sharing of social power among the citizens of the same fatherland: this is what they called liberty.
Diversity is life; uniformity is death.
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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.
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