Benjamin Constant

Benjamin Constant was born on 25 October 1767 in Lausanne, into a Protestant family, the son of an officer in the service of the Netherlands and of a mother who died shortly after his birth. He studied in Erlangen and Edinburgh, among other places. In 1794 he met Germaine de Staël, who shared his life and his work for some fifteen years. Removed from the Tribunate in 1802, an opponent of the Empire, he rallied to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, then sat as a liberal deputy under the Restoration. He also wrote a vast work on religion and kept a private diary. He died in Paris on 8 December 1830.

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