Benjamin Constant
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Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-French liberal philosopher, novelist, and politician best known for his influential writings on individual liberty and constitutional government in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Constant canonical | 7 |
| Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque | 1 |
| Swiss philosopher Benjamin Constant | 1 |
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Target entity: Benjamin Constant Context triple: [Acte additionnel aux constitutions de l'Empire, author, Benjamin Constant]
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François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand was a pioneering French writer, diplomat, and key figure of early Romanticism whose works profoundly shaped 19th-century French literature.
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Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël was a Russian-born French painter renowned for his thickly impastoed, abstract and semi-abstract compositions that bridged post-war abstraction and figurative art.
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Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël was a prominent French-Swiss intellectual, novelist, and political theorist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for her influential salons and writings that shaped European Romanticism and liberal thought.
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Vincent de Gournay
Vincent de Gournay was an 18th-century French economist and intendant of commerce known as an early advocate of economic liberalism and the phrase "laissez faire, laissez passer."
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Jean-Jacques-Régis
Jean-Jacques-Régis is the given name of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, a prominent French statesman and jurist during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Benjamin Constant Target entity description: Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-French liberal philosopher, novelist, and politician best known for his influential writings on individual liberty and constitutional government in the early 19th century.
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A.
François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand was a pioneering French writer, diplomat, and key figure of early Romanticism whose works profoundly shaped 19th-century French literature.
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B.
Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël was a Russian-born French painter renowned for his thickly impastoed, abstract and semi-abstract compositions that bridged post-war abstraction and figurative art.
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C.
Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël was a prominent French-Swiss intellectual, novelist, and political theorist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for her influential salons and writings that shaped European Romanticism and liberal thought.
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D.
Vincent de Gournay
Vincent de Gournay was an 18th-century French economist and intendant of commerce known as an early advocate of economic liberalism and the phrase "laissez faire, laissez passer."
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E.
Jean-Jacques-Régis
Jean-Jacques-Régis is the given name of Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, a prominent French statesman and jurist during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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liberal thinker ⓘ novelist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1767-10-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Canton of Vaud
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Lausanne ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| citizenship |
France
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
France
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Switzerland ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1830-12-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| familyName | de Rebecque ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional theory
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literature ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| fullName |
Benjamin Constant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
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| genre |
memoir
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novel ⓘ political essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Henri ⓘ |
| ideology |
constitutionalism
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liberalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alexis de Tocqueville
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John Stuart Mill ⓘ modern liberal political theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Immanuel Kant
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ Montesquieu ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement |
classical liberalism
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liberalism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
defense of individual rights against state power
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distinction between the liberty of the ancients and the liberty of the moderns ⓘ representative government as protection for individual liberty ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Adolphe
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De la liberté des Anciens comparée à celle des Modernes ⓘ De la liberté des Anciens comparée à celle des Modernes ⓘ
surface form:
De la liberté des Modernes
De l’esprit de conquête et de l’usurpation ⓘ Principes de politique applicables à tous les gouvernements représentatifs ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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novelist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Conseiller d'État
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surface form:
Conseiller d’État in France
member of the Chamber of Deputies of France ⓘ |
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Referenced by (9)
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