Constant de Rebecque

Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830), also Henry Benjamin de Constant de Rebecque, was a French politician, of liberal constitutional principles, born at Lausanne, of Huguenot parents. He settled in Paris at the commencement of the Revolution, where he distinguished himself by his political writings and speeches. He was expelled from France in 1802, along with Mme. de Staël, for denouncing the military ascendency of Napoleon. He lived for a time at Weimar in the society of Goethe and Schiller and translated Schiller's "Wallenstein". He returned to France in 1814. He declared for the Bourbons, and pled in favour of constitutional liberty. He was a supporter of Louis Philippe, and a rationalist in religion, and declared himself opposed to the supernatural element in all religions.

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