Constant de Rebecque, Henri Benjamin

Japanese: コンスタン（英語表記）Constant de Rebecque， Henri Benjamin

Born: October 25, 1767 in Lausanne
[Died] December 8, 1830. Paris. French novelist and politician. Born in Switzerland to a French Protestant soldier, he lost his mother at an early age and was educated in Germany and Scotland. In 1787, he met Madame Charrière in Paris. In 1795, he accompanied Madame de Stael, whom he had met in Lausanne, to Paris, where he began his active political career. He established his reputation as a powerful spokesman for the liberal middle class and advocated constitutionalism in opposition to Napoleon's dictatorship. He went into exile and returned to politics repeatedly as the political situation changed with the downfall of Napoleon, the First Restoration, the Hundred Days, and the Second Restoration. In 1819, he was elected as a member of the House of Representatives for the Sarthe region, and played an active role in supporting Louis Philippe, winning great support from the public. His novel Adolphe (1816), written in 1806 under the supervision of Madame de Stael, is renowned as a masterpiece and a pioneer of modern psychological novels. In addition to De la religion considers dans sa source, ses formes et ses developments (5 vols., pp. 24-31), his second novel Cécile (published in 1951), which was discovered more than 100 years after his death, and his autobiography Le Cahier rouge (published in 1907), he has also published diaries and numerous letters in which he analyzes his unstable personality with a cool-headed intellect.

Constant
Constant, Benjamin-Jean-Joseph

Born: June 10, 1845 in Paris
[Died] May 26, 1902. French painter in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1869, and traveled to Morocco in 1872. He is known for his murals at the Sorbonne, the Paris City Hall, and the Opera Comique, and was also considered a first-rate portrait painter. He became a member of the Academie in 1893.

Constant
Constant, Benjamin;

[Born] 1833
[Died] 1891
Brazilian politician and thinker. In 1871 he founded the Positivist Society and worked to popularize positivism. As a republican, he led the Republican Revolution of 1889 and after the revolution held important positions such as Minister of Army and Minister of Education and Posts.

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Japanese:

[生]1767.10.25. ローザンヌ
[没]1830.12.8. パリ
フランスの小説家，政治家。スイスのフランス系亡命プロテスタントの軍人の子に生れ，早く母を失い，ドイツとスコットランドで教育を受け，1787年パリでシャリエール夫人と知合った。 95年ローザンヌで知遇を得たスタール夫人に従いパリへ出て，活発な政治活動を開始。自由主義市民階級の有力な代弁者として声価を確立，ナポレオンの独裁政治に対抗して憲政主義を主張した。ナポレオンの失脚，第1王政復古，百日天下，第2王政復古と政情の変化に伴って亡命と政界復帰を繰返したが，1819年サルト地方の下院議員に選ばれて，ルイ・フィリップ擁立などに活躍，大きな衆望を得た。 06年スイスのスタール夫人のもとで書かれた小説『アドルフ』 Adolphe (1816) は近代心理小説の先駆として傑作の名が高い。『宗教論』 De la religion considérée dans sa source，ses formes et ses développements (5巻，24～31) ，死後 100年以上たってから発見された第2の小説『セシル』 Cécile (1951刊) ，自伝『赤い手帳』 Le Cahier rouge (1907刊) のほか，冷徹な知性によって不安定な自己の性格を分析した日記と多数の書簡が刊行されている。