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100 1 _aCastille, Hippolyte,
_d1820-1886
245 1 0 _aBenjamin Constant
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2007
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2007-01-19
508 _aProduced 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
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrance -- History -- 1789-1900
653 _aAuthors, French -- 19th century -- Biography
653 _aAuthors, French -- 18th century -- Biography
653 _aConstant, Benjamin, -- 1767-1830
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20398
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