![]() The great intellectual event of Constant’s life occurred when he was sent to Edinburgh to study between 17. Constant wrote a detailed account of his private life from 1767 to 1787 in Le Cahier rouge (not published until 1907) subsequently he maintained a Journal intime (published in unexpurgated form in 1952). His father was a professional soldier in a Swiss regiment in the service of the Netherlands. The Protestant-or more specifically, Calvinist-heritage remained an important part of Constant’s framework. His mother, who died shortly after childbirth, was a descendant of a French Huguenot family that had sought refuge in Switzerland from religious persecution. He was born 25 October 1767 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Henriette de Chandieu and Juste Constant de Rebecque. ![]() Etienne Hofmann, Introduction by Nicholas Capaldi (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003).īenjamin Constant was the key thinker in the French classical liberal tradition between Montesquieu and Tocqueville. Source: Introduction to Principles of Politics Applicable to a all Governments, trans. ![]()
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