In his own lifetime, Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was known as a political theorist, as the courageous defender of liberal causes, and as a notable historian of the religious experience of mankind. Through his journals, autobiographical works and correspondence - documents largely unknown to his contemporaries - subsequent generations have discovered in Constant a complex personality and have seen in Adolphe one of the greatest French novels of psychological analysis. In recent decades a number of private archives have become accessible to scholars for the first time, and this has...
In his own lifetime, Henri Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was known as a political theorist, as the courageous defender of liberal causes, and as a not...
