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Benjamin Constant
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Benjamin Constant was a French-Swiss political thinker and writer from the late 1700s and early 1800s who explored important questions about politics and religion during a turbulent period in European history. His ideas about individual liberty and the limits of government power continue to influence how people think about freedom and politics today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1767
- Died
- 1830
- Works
- 253
Top works
- Lettre à Monsieur de Procureur-Général de la cour royale de Poitiers
- Discours de M. Benjamin Constant, Député de la Sarthe, sur la loi relative aux finances
- De la dissolution de la chambre des députés
- Annales de la session de 1817 à 1818
- Des motifs qui ont dicté le nouveau projet de loi sur les elections
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 101
- Total plays
- 329
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,124x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,861x
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,691x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 30,847x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
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Quotes
- “Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.”
- “Diversity is life; uniformity is death.”
- “The aim of the ancients was the sharing of social power among the citizens of the same fatherland: this is what they called liberty. The aim of the moderns is the enjoyment of liberty in private pleasures, and they call “liberty” the guarantees accorded by institutions to these pleasures.”
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Wikidata facts
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- Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque.png
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- Benjamin Constant
- date of birth
- 1767-01-01
- date of death
- 1830-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Benjamin Constant
- birth name
- Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
- start of work period
- 1779-00-00
- end of work period
- 1830-00-00
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Benjamin Constant, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.
A committed republican from 1795, Constant backed the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the following one on 18 Brumaire (9 November 1799). He became the leader of the Liberal opposition in 1800, during the Consulate. Having upset Napoleon and left France to go to Switzerland then to the Kingdom of Saxony, Constant nonetheless sided with him during the Hundred Days, drafting the Charter of 1815, and became politically active again during the Bourbon Restoration. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 and remained in office until his death in 1830. As the head of the Liberal opposition, known as Indépendants, Constant was one of the most notable orators of the Chamber as a proponent of the parliamentary system. During the July Revolution, he was a supporter of Louis Philippe I ascending the throne.