Project Gutenberg 2007-01-19 Public domain in the USA. 57 Castille, Hippolyte 1820 1886 Benjamin Constant 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.) Reading ease score: 70.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. 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 Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) 89271 2025-07-08T13:03:59.812279 text/html 95853 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/html 283651 2025-07-08T13:04:05.302173 application/epub+zip 282391 2025-07-08T13:04:02.640206 application/epub+zip 97401 2025-07-08T13:04:01.510179 application/epub+zip 408268 2025-07-08T13:04:07.221101 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396191 2025-07-08T13:04:04.598171 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 197297 2022-09-09T14:23:14.627199 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 77238 2025-07-08T13:03:59.487224 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 75528 2021-01-01T17:45:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20686 2025-07-08T13:04:07.343096 application/rdf+xml 15841 2025-07-08T13:04:02.001160 image/jpeg 3918 2025-07-08T13:04:01.754174 image/jpeg 30548 2021-01-01T17:45:38 application/octet-stream application/zip 200359 2021-01-01T17:45:38 application/octet-stream application/zip 282095 2025-07-08T13:03:59.831172 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia