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Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, né le 25 octobre 1767 à Lausanne et mort le 8 décembre 1830 à Paris, inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise1, est un romancier, homme politique, et intellectuel français d'origine vaudoise.

Républicain et engagé en politique depuis 1795, il soutient le coup d'État du 18 fructidor an V (4 septembre 1797), puis celui du 18 Brumaire (an VIII : 9 novembre 1799). Il devient, sous le Consulat, le chef de l'opposition libérale dès 1800. Après avoir quitté la France pour la Suisse puis l'Allemagne, il se rallie à Napoléon pendant les Cent jours, et revient en politique sous la Restauration. Élu député en 1819, il le sera encore à sa mort en 1830. Chef de file de l'opposition libérale, connue sous le nom des célèbres « Indépendants », il est l'un des orateurs les plus en vue de la Chambre des députés et défend le régime parlementaire. Lors de la révolution de Juillet, il soutient l'installation de Louis-Philippe sur le trône.

Auteur de nombreux essais sur des questions politiques ou religieuses, Benjamin Constant a également écrit des romans psychologiques sur le sentiment amoureux comme Le Cahier rouge (1807), où se retrouvent des éléments autobiographiques de son amour pour Madame de Staël, et Adolphe (1816).

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Published September 11, 2022

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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born, nobleman, thinker, writer and French politician.

Constant was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, to descendants of noble Huguenots who fled France during the Huguenot wars in the early 16th century to settle in Lausanne. He was educated by private tutors and at the University of Erlangen, Bavaria, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the course of his life, he spent many years in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Great Britain.

He was intimate with Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and their intellectual collaboration made them one of the most important intellectual pairs of their time. He was a fervent liberal, fought against the Restauration and was active in French politics as a publicist and politician during the latter half of the French Revolution and between 1815 and 1830. During part of this latter period, he sat in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower legislative house of the Restoration-era government. He was one of its most eloquent orators and a leader of the parliamentary block first known as the Independants and then as "liberals."

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