Project Gutenberg 2007-01-19 Public domain in the USA. 61 Castille, Hippolyte 1820 1886 Benjamin Constant Reading ease score: 70.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at DP Europe (http://dp.rastko.net); produced from images of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr "Benjamin Constant" by Hippolyte Castille is a biography written in the mid-19th century, specifically around the year 1857. The book explores the life and contributions of the Swiss-French political thinker and writer Benjamin Constant, who played a significant role in the intellectual landscape of early 19th-century France. The text delves into Constant's complex character and the historical events that shaped his views on democracy, politics, and personal relationships. The biography chronicles Benjamin Constant’s life from his birth in 1767 to his death in 1830, detailing significant milestones such as his relationship with prominent figures like Madame de Staël and his turbulent political career. Constant navigated the sociopolitical upheavals of the French Revolution, experiencing the contradictions of democracy and personal ambition firsthand. His life is portrayed as a continuous interplay of passionate endeavors in politics, literature, and love, often marked by an underlying irony and skepticism. Castille provides insight into Constant's thoughts, his deep emotional struggles, and his essential contributions to liberal philosophy, making this work an engaging study of a man who wrestled with the challenges of his time while shaping modern political discourse. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr France -- History -- 1789-1900 Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography Constant, Benjamin, -- 1767-1830 DC Text FR Biographie, Mémoires, Journal intime, Correspondance Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General 89149 89166 2024-10-09T05:22:03.186953 2023-09-09T07:56:01.387051 text/html text/html 95853 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 200359 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 283576 2024-10-09T05:22:10.276901 application/epub+zip 282398 2024-10-09T05:22:07.084933 application/epub+zip 97408 2024-10-09T05:22:05.370912 application/epub+zip 408317 2024-10-09T05:22:12.601884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396191 2024-10-09T05:22:09.293920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 197297 2022-09-09T14:23:14.627199 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 77238 76994 2024-10-09T05:22:02.354952 2023-09-09T07:56:01.116026 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 75528 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 30548 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20630 2024-10-09T05:22:13.164890 application/rdf+xml 15841 2024-10-09T05:22:06.270917 image/jpeg 3918 2024-10-09T05:22:05.874929 image/jpeg 282059 2024-10-09T05:22:03.205984 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog