biography
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Constant (de Rebeque), (Henri) Benjamin
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pronunciation:
[kõstã duh rebek]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1767–1830)
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| biography:
| French politician and novelist, born in Lausanne, W Switzerland. He studied at Oxford, Erlangen, and Edinburgh, and settled in Paris as a publicist (1795). He supported the Revolution, but was banished in 1802 for his opposition to Napoleon. He returned in 1814, and became Leader of the Liberal Opposition. His best-known work is the novel Adolphe (1816), based on his relationship with Mme de Staël. |
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