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Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (French: [ɑ̃ʁi bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ kɔ̃stɑ̃ də ʁəbɛk]; 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.
Benjamin-Constant also taught at Académie Julian; [1] among his pupils were Henry Ossawa Tanner, the miniaturists Alice Beckington [2] and Angele L'hermerout and the Scottish artist W. S. Shanks. [3] He was a writer of repute, contributing a number of studies on contemporary French painters.
Benjamin Constant may be: People. Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), Swiss-French politician and author Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque; Benjamin Constant (military) (1836–1891), Brazilian military man and politician Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães; Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (surname sometimes seen as "Benjamin Constant") (1845 ...
Benjamin Constant Botelho de Magalhães (18 October 1836 – 22 January 1891) was a Brazilian military officer and political thinker. Primarily a positivist, influenced heavily by Auguste Comte, he was the founder of the positivist movement in Brazil (Sociedade Positivista do Brasil, Brazilian Positivist Society), and later this led to his republican views.
Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all ...
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 discography; Christmas Oratorio discography; Così fan tutte discography; Der Rosenkavalier discography; Dido and Aeneas discography; Die Entführung aus dem Serail discography; Die Fledermaus discography; Die Frau ohne Schatten discography; Discography of Bach's Magnificat; Discography of motets by Johann ...
For Constant, freedom in the sense of the Ancients "consisted of the active and constant participation in the collective power" and consisted in "exercising, collectively, but directly, several parts of the whole sovereignty" and, except in Athens, they thought that this vision of liberty was compatible with "the complete subjection of the individual to the authority of the whole". [1]
The Day of the Funeral - Scene from Morocco (1889) by Benjamin-Constant. The Day of the Funeral - Scene from Morocco or The Funeral of the Emir (French: Le jour des funérailles - Scène du Maroc, also known as Les funérailles de l'Emir) is an oil on canvas painting by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, from 1889.