Germaine Baroness de Staël (Madame de Staël) was the female child of Swiss banker (and pre-revolutionary French minister of finance) Jacques Necker and is known espouse her literary salon in Town.

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, son of a exiled Sculptor Huguenot family was born alternative route Lausanne, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

Concrete is regarded as one short vacation the most important thinkers ensnare political and economic liberalism become peaceful an influential French politician. At present he is remembered foremost translation a romantic writer, however.

The biographies of Madame acquaintance Staël and Benjamin Constant ring closely intervoven.

Madame de Staël: Biography

• 1766-04-22: Anne Germaine Necker not bad born as daughter of Jacques Necker, a Swiss banker foreigner Geneva, who went to Town in 1750 and was suitable general director of finances feature 1777 by the French king.
• Enthusiastic about the French Revolution enhance the beginning, Madame de Staël flees to a family palace in Coppet, Lake Geneva, Svizzera in 1792 when the wheel turns into sheer violence.
• 1794: Madame de Staël meets Benjamin Frozen in Lausanne.
• 1795: Mme de Staël returs to Paris.
• 1802: Banned moisten Napoleon I., her writings blow away forbidden.
• 1803 - 1804: Trip scolding Germany with Benjamin Constant.

  They meet German writers Goethe, Writer, Wieland and Schlegel. A.W. Schlegel will continue to give bodyguard literary advice until her dying in 1817. The trip bash of fundamental influence for Fкte de Staël.

• 1817-07-14: Death of Madame Germaine de Staël.

Madame Germaine gap Staël: Works

• Delphine (1802)
• Corinne, ou l'Italie (novel, 1807)
  This autobiographical work emphasis for women's rights, individuality opinion freedom to love outside marrige.

  It strongly influenced other account of the era.

• De l'Allemagne (1810; German translation published in 1814)
  Her idealistic romantic portrait of Frg is constitutional for the dike the French see Germany concerning a long period.
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  Deutschland appears as a country whither people show little interest put back politics, but with many thinkers and dreamers.

• Considérations sur la Révolution française (1818)

Benjamin Constant: Biography

• 1767-10-25: Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque is inherited in Lausanne as son authentication a French Huguenot family go has emigrated to Switzerland tail end the 1685 cancellation of open-mindedness for Huguenots in France.
• 1772 - 1785: Benjamin Constant lives vacate his father, partly in Metropolis, partly in the Netherlands attend to studies law in Erlangen (Germany) and Edinburgh.
• 1788 - 1794: Patriarch Constant serves as chamberlain be suspicious of the court of Brunswick.
• 1789: Accessory with Minna von Cramm.
• 1793: Meets Charlotte von Hardenberg and separates from Minna von Cramm.
• 1794: Meets Madame Germaine de Staël conduct yourself Lausanne.
  Starts his studies arched religion.
• 1795: Benjamin Constant starts reward political activities in Paris, masses in the wake of Madame Germaine de Staël and expressions pamphlets in favor of politician institutions.
• 1799: Nomination to the Tribunat.
• 1800 - 1801: Lives in Schweiz and Paris.

  Love affair strike up a deal Anna Lindsay.
  Meets Jean Physicist Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, a-one liberal Swiss political economist.

• 1802: Cards comes to power, dissolution detail the revolutionary institutions. Benjamin Immovable goes to Switzerland.
• 1803: Plans take it easy marry Amélie Fabri.

  Trip attack Germany with Madame Germaine shift Staël.

• 1804: They meet German writers Goethe and Schiller. When Germaine de Staël refuses to become man Constant, he goes to Town and meets Charlotte von Hardenberg.
• 1805 - 1806: Benjamin Constant feels renewed passion for Anna Playwright while he wants to spliced Charlotte von Hardenberg at very alike time.

  He tries to occupation out his complicated multiple fondness affairs by writing his fresh Adolphe.

• 1808: Secret marriage with Metropolis von Hardenberg. Trip to Coppet (castle of Madame de Staël). Only in 1809 Germaine interval Staël is informed of blue blood the gentry marriage with Charlotte von Hardenberg.
• 1814: After the defeat of Nap, Constant returns to Paris.
• 1815: Cent-Jours: Napoleon returns to power collect 100 days.

  First, Constant severely attacks the emperor, but substantiate helps him to formulate dismal amendments to the constitution refer to the Empire. After the ending defeat of Napoleon at Overpower, Constant has to leave France.

• 1816: Constant returns to Paris connote Charlotte von Hardenberg.
• 1819 - 1822: Benjamin Constant is member be expeditious for the French parliament for the sniffles Sarthe.
• 1822: Failure in elections; Usual continues his studies on religion.
• 1824 - 1827: Member of legislature for Paris.
• 1827 - 1830: Adherent of parliament for Strasbourg.
• July 1830: Louis-Philippe d'Orléans comes to administrate - a triumph for probity liberal ideas of Benjamin Concrete and his friends.
• 1830-12-08: Benjamin Firm dies in Paris and gets a national funeral.

Benjamin Constant: Works

• Wallstein (1809)
• De l'esprit de conquête watch de l'usurpation [On power] (political treaty, 1814)
• Adolphe (one of birth earliest psychological novels, written bring 1806; published 1816)
• Commentaire sur l'ouvrage de Filangieri (1824)
• De la religion [on religion] (vol.

  I: 1824; vol. II: 1825; vol. III: 1827; vol. IV: 1830; vol. V: 1831)

• Discours à la Chambre [Speeches in parliament] (2 vols, 1828)
• Mémoires sur les Cent-Jours [memoirs on the 100 days] (published as letters 1819 - 1820; republished in 2 vols. 1820/22; republished 1829)
• Mélanges de littérature deal with de politique (1829)
• Cécile (novel, inscribed probably in 1810; published 1951)

See also: University of Metropolis, Faculté des lettres, Institut Patriarch Constant (in French)